Protestors line up for their cut of $4.9M settlement over violent 2017 St. Louis riot

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Protestors line up for their cut of $4.9M settlement over violent 2017 St. Louis riot
August 6, 2023 | Kevin Haggerty

Lawlessness was rewarded in St. Louis as police protesters began lining up to collect from a more than $5 million “kettling” settlement.

A now more than decade-old police officer involved shooting death led to dozens taking home an average of $43,000 after failing to heed disbursal instructions. After originally proposing the settlement for $5.2 million in January, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the process of handing out checks rewarding civil unrest began Friday.

The sum of $4.9 million was set to be divided among 84 plaintiffs named in the class action lawsuit that had been filed following the 2017 protests of the acquittal of former police officer Jason Stockley, with three individuals claiming the remainder at $85,000 a piece.

In what would become an all-too-familiar scene throughout the country in 2020, in Sept. 2017 Black Lives Matter protests took to the streets of St. Louis after Judge Timothy Wilson had cleared Stockley of first-degree murder charges of 24-year-old Anthony Lamar Smith in 2011.

“It feels like a burden has been lifted, but the burden of having to kill someone never really lifts,” the former officer said at the time. “The taking of someone’s life is the most significant thing one can do, and it’s not done lightly.”

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[the OlLine Rebel]

Confusing writing and punctuation.

Having hard time understanding if scumbag rioters got rewarded, or victims of it.

[PeteS in CA]

The acquittal of the officer was the right decision, IMO. The dead guy was a felon, dealing heroin, caught selling, car-chased, stopped, and when Officer Stockley went up to the guy's car, he was reaching for a gun when he was shot and killed. The prosecution tried the, "The gun was planted," claim, which the judge found not credible (for reasons he explained).

[Smokin Joe]

They should use this as a sting operation, and round them up as they come in for money.

Any rioter seeking compensation will have sworn they were a participant.