WASHINGTON: The US court has sentenced a former police officer who was illegally assigned to beat black colleagues disguised as protesters in the Demonstration of 2017.
Federal Judges on Tuesday sentenced Randy Hays, 34, to more than four years in prison after the former police Claiming guilty in 2019 to use excessive and unreasonable strength, according to court documents.
Hays, along with former Dustin Boone and Christopher Myers officers were accused of knocking the land of an incognition officer who monitors the protesters, and then kicked and attacked the officers with a police stick.
On Thursday, another former officer, Bailey Colretta, was given a three-year-old punishment for lying to the federal jury during the investigation of his incident.
Boone was found guilty by the jury in June and will be sentenced to September 15, exactly four years after the incident.
Protests broke out in mid-September 2017 in the US City St.
Louis, Missouri against the release of former Jason Stockley officers in the 2011 Fatal Shooting Anthony Lamar Smith.
The case, involving a white officer and black victims, is one of the many people across the country that inspired public demonstrations, police reform, and lead to the movement of black life material.
Police responses to protests are widely criticized.
According to the indictment of four defendants, some of the officers were deployed “declared disgust” for the protesters and “excitement about using power that cannot be justified against them.” “It will be very pleasant to beat this hell so the sun sets and no one can tell us!” Boone said in exchange that was transcribed in court documents.
Cop Luther Hall who disguised gathered information at the rally and disguised as protesters when three other officers “threw (hall) to the ground and then kicked and attacked (he) while he was obedient and did not pose a physical threat to anyone,” reading charges.
His white partner, also wearing civilian clothes, not hurt.
After finding that he was a police officer, the three male officers made a false statement about the incident “to justify the use of their strength,” said the indictment.
They also tried to contact Hall, a police veteran of St.
Louis, in an effort to prevent him from taking legal action.
In February, the city of St Louis agreed to pay a $ 5 million hall to complete a civil lawsuit.