SAINT LOUIS –
A white ex-police officer from the American Saint Louis, Jason Stockley, was Friday acquitted by the court for the murder of an African-American suspect. Stockley was at that time agent in the district of Ferguson and shot to own say in self-defence, in december 2011, the 24-year-old black Anthony Lamar Smith after a chase and death.
Stockley was last year arrested and murder accused, because the suspicion was raised that he, with the evidence had been tampered with and the fire is not out of self-defense against the unarmed Smith would have been opened.
Approximately five hundred people went Friday to the streets in protest against the verdict and cried: “No justice no peace”. A number of demonstrators carried signs with the saying ’Black Lives Matter’. The eponymous movement in the U.S. originated as a reaction to police brutality against black Americans.