St. Louis Prosecutor Refuses to Take on Cases From 28 Police Officers — She Made a List
30th August 2018
St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner delivered an “exclusion list” to the city police department on Tuesday. On that list were the names of 28 police officers — and Gardner says that she will no longer consider cases brought to her office by any of those on the list.
The technical term for this is ‘dereliction of duty’.
While Gardner’s office has given no official reason for the case review or the exclusion list, many of her critics fear that the move could be political.
Oh, ya think?
In 2017, protests broke out after Gardner failed to get a conviction against former police officer Jason Stockley for the shooting death of Anthony Lamar Smith. Stockley has since filed a lawsuit against former circuit attorney Jennifer Joyce — who filed charges on her way out the door and left the prosecution in Gardner’s hands — for defamation and malicious prosecution.
That sure sounds ‘political’ to me.
Kim Gardner is ‘St Louis’ first black Circuit Attorney‘
I smell a little bit of racial politics going on there. Of course, if she were white and the policemen black, newspapers across the country would be screaming RACISM! for the next ten years.