May 02, 2019
Race, Politics, and a Shooting in Ladue
Timothy Birdnow.
We've got a weird case here in St. Louis gearing up. A veteran woman cop in the wealthy suburb of Ladue shot a black woman shoplifter outside a local grocery store. She has just been indicted (to her utter shock, as photos attest) and may well do hard time in prison. She is arguing she thought she had the taser and not the service pistol. Of course, since it was a black shopflifter Black Lives Matter is pushing hard for her prosecution. And, as with the Mike Brown Ferguson affair, local racial politics has a huge amount to do with it. St. Louis County Executive Steve Stenger was recently indicted on corruption charges. Stenger ran against the black CE just before the Ferguson riots and defeated him on corruption charges, and the black politicians have never forgotten that. I think this woman cop is going to be nailed hard on this shooting as payback.
The Riverfront Times tells the story:
St. Louis County Prosecutor Wesley Bell was elected from the Ferguson city council as a Black Lives Mater advocate funded in part by none other than George Soros. Bell has every reason to seek to throw the book at Officer Crews.
Bell has already stated, well:
So Bell wants a Star Chamber to go after County police.
There is more to this story than meets the eye. I'll try to keep everyone posted.
We've got a weird case here in St. Louis gearing up. A veteran woman cop in the wealthy suburb of Ladue shot a black woman shoplifter outside a local grocery store. She has just been indicted (to her utter shock, as photos attest) and may well do hard time in prison. She is arguing she thought she had the taser and not the service pistol. Of course, since it was a black shopflifter Black Lives Matter is pushing hard for her prosecution. And, as with the Mike Brown Ferguson affair, local racial politics has a huge amount to do with it. St. Louis County Executive Steve Stenger was recently indicted on corruption charges. Stenger ran against the black CE just before the Ferguson riots and defeated him on corruption charges, and the black politicians have never forgotten that. I think this woman cop is going to be nailed hard on this shooting as payback.
The Riverfront Times tells the story:
St. Louis County Police said the Ladue officer, who has been on the force for thirteen years, responded to reports of a shoplifting and disturbance involving two suspects. She stopped one of the suspects, a 33-year-old woman, moments after she ran out of the store. The woman told the officer she had suffered some kind of injury.
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That's about the time the Ladue officer, Crews, came onto the scene. Noble says she spoke to the woman and called an ambulance. But when Crews went to arrest her, the officer managed to get only one cuff on the alleged shoplifter before the woman scuffled with her and scrambled away.
At that point, Noble says, Crews had every right to use her Taser. Instead, the officer mistakenly drew her gun and fired in the heat of the moment, he says.
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That's about the time the Ladue officer, Crews, came onto the scene. Noble says she spoke to the woman and called an ambulance. But when Crews went to arrest her, the officer managed to get only one cuff on the alleged shoplifter before the woman scuffled with her and scrambled away.
At that point, Noble says, Crews had every right to use her Taser. Instead, the officer mistakenly drew her gun and fired in the heat of the moment, he says.
St. Louis County Prosecutor Wesley Bell was elected from the Ferguson city council as a Black Lives Mater advocate funded in part by none other than George Soros. Bell has every reason to seek to throw the book at Officer Crews.
Bell has already stated, well:
In the future, Bell plans to form a standalone unit in the prosecutor's office that will investigate officer-involved shootings and report only to him.
So Bell wants a Star Chamber to go after County police.
There is more to this story than meets the eye. I'll try to keep everyone posted.
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