A former St Louis police officer who was convicted of defeating a detective in black disguise during the 2017 racial injustice protest was sentenced to one year and one day in prison – much lighter than prosecutors and victims.
Dustin Boone was sentenced Monday at the US District Court after being punished in June from federal civil rights violations related to attack on Luther Hall.
Boone, 37, is one of five white officers charged with.
Boone’s sentence is less than his own lawyer requested.
While the prosecutor was looking for a 10-year sentence, the defense lawyer asked the US district judge e Richard Webber to overcome Boone to 26 months.
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Louis Post-Dispatch reported that the sentence appeared to Stun Hall, his relatives and supporters, who walked out of the courtroom before Webber finished saying the sentence.
They refused to comment after the trial, just as the prosecutor.
Hall, in a statement to Webber before the punishment was announced, said he thought Webber’s punishment of the two other officers charged was too soft, “reduced sentences that were not shown by African-American defendants”.
Lawyers Boone argued that he did not participate in the initial beating of the hall on September 17, 2017, and held him only because other officers “acted as if” they made an arrest.
They also said in the memo that the St Louis police department forgives and encourages violence, especially racial violence.
The prosecutor said the officers mistakenly believed that the hall participated in protests after the release of Jason Stockley, a white officer accused of shooting a black man after chasing.
The prosecutor, in their punishment, said Boone had a history of suspect abuse.
Randy Hays officers were sentenced to July to more than four years in prison after pleading guilty in 2019 to use unreasonable and excessive strength in beatings.
Bailey Colletta received a trial period to lie to the FBI and a large jury.
Christopher Myers officers and Officer Steven Korte were released from charges of civil rights, and Korte was also released to lie to the FBI.
Myers will plead guilty in January until the allegations of violating the seizure of the rights to destroy the Hall telephone, his lawyer has said.
Hall, who was permanently injured in the attack, reached a $ 5 million settlement with the police department.