St. Louis Police Officers Indicted In Beating Of An Undercover Colleague

[SummerMadness]

St. Louis Police Officers Indicted In Beating Of An Undercover Colleague

A federal grand jury indicted three members of the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department on charges of beating a fellow police officer who was working undercover during a 2017 protest. A fourth officer also was indicted and accused conspiring to cover up the incident.

According to the indictment, officers Boone, Hays and Myers inflicted "bodily injury" on an undercover officer identified in the court document only as "L.H.", an officer and detective who is described as having 22 years of experience with the police department. The beating of L.H. occurred "while he was compliant and not posing a threat to anyone." The incident occurred during a September 17, 2017, protest against the acquittal of a white police officer who was tried in the death of a black suspect in 2011.

 

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[Dave-W]

IF they were going to beat protesters and the officer was under cover, would not leaving him be while they beat others blow his cover?

Not that they should be beating anyone.

 

[SummerMadness]

IF they were going to beat protesters and the officer was under cover, would not leaving him be while they beat others blow his cover?

Not that they should be beating anyone.

So what you're saying is they had to beat him so as not to blow his cover? If we all have lumps, but Gary doesn't have a scratch, it might mean Gary is on the take.

 

[Dave-W]

So what you're saying is they had to beat him so as not to blow his cover?

Only if they knew who he was and knew he was undercover.

But St Louis is big enough that they likely did NOT know him. In which case he (along with everyone else who got beaten) have a serious case of police brutality to pursue.

Interestingly, I watched an episode of JAG last week from the early 2000s about a guy at Guantanamo who was being taken for "advanced interrogation" and resisted so he was beaten into a coma by the Marine guards. Turned out he was an Army investigator working under cover.

 

[Presbyterian Continuist]

St. Louis Police Officers Indicted In Beating Of An Undercover Colleague

Thank goodness I don't live there. A guy could get shot by some rogue cop for just walking down the street!

 

[Aryeh Jay]

Only if they knew who he was and knew he was undercover.

But St Louis is big enough that they likely did NOT know him. In which case he (along with everyone else who got beaten) have a serious case of police brutality to pursue.

Interestingly, I watched an episode of JAG last week from the early 2000s about a guy at Guantanamo who was being taken for "advanced interrogation" and resisted so he was beaten into a coma by the Marine guards. Turned out he was an Army investigator working under cover.

And that is why show like JAG are just that, TV Shown and the reason that I do not watch quasi Military law enforcement shows like Jag and NCIS, because they actually have a very anti-military theme.

As that was my last duty assignment on active duty, I will try to put your mind at ease, the guards at GTMO, be them Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, or Coast Guard do not conduct interrogations of detainees and never have, we “guarded” them. We also were not even physically present during interrogations, but were close buy.

In regards to that episode, which I have not seen, it would be impossible for anyone to go undercover. There is no way they would trust that person. He would need to have a spot on and perfect accent and dialect, he would need to know just about everybody in “his” village, valley and province and other people would have to know him too, and not that he just showed up six weeks ago, he would have to know every local custom, who did he fight with during the Soviet invasion or who his father fought with. Who are his family and people would also have to know them as well. Nope, not ever going to happen. Especially after the CIA moved away from HUMINT (Human assets on the ground) and moved to SIGINT and IMINT (signal intelligence and image intelligence, Radio comms/Cell phones and satellite imagery) back in the 1970s under President Carter.


Other fun facts about GTMO…

The Detention Center was pre-fabricated in the US and transported to GTMO by barge.

The Detention Center was modeled on an existing facility in the State of Michigan.


(Thanks again for what you do with NOAA)

 

[SummerMadness]

And that is why show like JAG are just that, TV Shown and the reason that I do not watch quasi Military law enforcement shows like Jag and NCIS, because they actually have a very anti-military theme.

As that was my last duty assignment on active duty, I will try to put your mind at ease, the guards at GTMO, be them Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, or Coast Guard do not conduct interrogations of detainees and never have, we “guarded” them. We also were not even physically present during interrogations, but were close buy.

In regards to that episode, which I have not seen, it would be impossible for anyone to go undercover. There is no way they would trust that person. He would need to have a spot on and perfect accent and dialect, he would need to know just about everybody in “his” village, valley and province and other people would have to know him too, and not that he just showed up six weeks ago, he would have to know every local custom, who did he fight with during the Soviet invasion or who his father fought with. Who are his family and people would also have to know them as well. Nope, not ever going to happen. Especially after the CIA moved away from HUMINT (Human assets on the ground) and moved to SIGINT and IMINT (signal intelligence and image intelligence, Radio comms/Cell phones and satellite imagery) back in the 1970s under President Carter.


Other fun facts about GTMO…

The Detention Center was pre-fabricated in the US and transported to GTMO by barge.

The Detention Center was modeled on an existing facility in the State of Michigan.


(Thanks again for what you do with NOAA)

I think shows with any quasi-experts should be ignored. I still laugh at how MRI machines are portrayed in movies, like the "on-off" button for the magnet (the magnet is always on).

 

[SummerMadness]

'It's still a blast beating people': St. Louis police indicted in assault of undercover officer posing as protester

When a judge acquitted a white St. Louis police officer in September 2017 for fatally shooting a young black man, the city's police braced for massive protests. But St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department Officer Dustin Boone wasn't just prepared for the unrest — he was pumped.

"It's gonna get IGNORANT tonight!!" he texted on Sept. 15, 2017, the day of the verdict. "It's gonna be a lot of fun beating the hell out of these [people] once the sun goes down and nobody can tell us apart!!!!"

 

[DaisyDay]

IF they were going to beat protesters and the officer was under cover, would not leaving him be while they beat others blow his cover?

Well, maybe...

And the reason for covering it up and lying to the federal investigators?

Not that they should be beating anyone.

That should be a given...

The indictment includes what appears to be text messages among three officers before the protests in which they talk about their plans to beat protesters.

It was all in good fun.

 

[usexpat97]

What disgusted me about this all along is, why are they planting undercovers masquerading as protesters in the first place? I have an idea: how about not doing that?

 

[essentialsaltes]

St. Louis Police Officers Indicted In Beating Of An Undercover Colleague

On Monday, jurors returned a not-guilty verdict for Korte and Myers on a charge of deprivation of rights under color of law, according to CNN affiliate KMOV and KSDK.

A mistrial was also declared on that same charge for Boone.

Additionally, Korte was found not guilty of lying to the FBI. Myers had a mistrial declared on a charge of destroying evidence, the affiliates reported.

Colletta pleaded guilty on September 6, 2019, to the charge of making false statements to the grand jury. She was charged with lying to a grand jury and to investigators about what she witnessed that day. She will be sentenced on April 10, according to a US Department of Justice statement.

Hays also pleaded guilty on November 18, 2018, to deprivation of constitutional rights, according to the Justice Department statement.

[The victim's] civil suit notes that his partner, who is White, was also arrested during the protest but was not beaten or injured.

 

[whatbogsends]

On Monday, jurors returned a not-guilty verdict for Korte and Myers on a charge of deprivation of rights under color of law, according to CNN affiliate KMOV and KSDK.

A mistrial was also declared on that same charge for Boone.

Additionally, Korte was found not guilty of lying to the FBI. Myers had a mistrial declared on a charge of destroying evidence, the affiliates reported.

Colletta pleaded guilty on September 6, 2019, to the charge of making false statements to the grand jury. She was charged with lying to a grand jury and to investigators about what she witnessed that day. She will be sentenced on April 10, according to a US Department of Justice statement.

Hays also pleaded guilty on November 18, 2018, to deprivation of constitutional rights, according to the Justice Department statement.

[The victim's] civil suit notes that his partner, who is White, was also arrested during the protest but was not beaten or injured.

Even as they beat another officer of the law, police continue to be free of the consequences of their actions.

"Blue Lives Matter" may need to change their name to, "Blue Lives Matter More When They're Not Also Black".

 

[iluvatar5150]

Even as they beat another officer of the law, police continue to be free of the consequences of their actions.

"Blue Lives Matter" may need to change their name to, "Blue Lives Matter More When They're Not Also Black".

Blue Lives Matter When They're Not Standing Up to Bad Behavior

 

[mala]

What disgusted me about this all along is, why are they planting undercovers masquerading as protesters in the first place? I have an idea: how about not doing that?

law enforcement has used undercover operatives for decades. back during the civil rights movement would is surprise you that in a room of 5 protesters 4 or them were undercover agents. this also brings up interesting issues of entrapment.