Yahoo News 'It's a blast beating people!' US policemen face trial after beating up a black undercover cop
Four policemen in the US have been indicted for beating up a black fellow police officer who was working undercover.
One of the cops – Dustin Boone – even boasted that ‘it’s a blast beating people’, before the assault took place during protests in St Louis in September last year over the acquittal of a white officer for fatally shooting a black man.
‘It’s gonna get IGNORANT tonight!!” he texted on the day of the verdict.
‘It’s gonna be a lot of fun beating the hell out of these s***heads once the sun goes down and nobody can tell us apart!!!!’
Two days later, prosecutors allege that Boone, 35, plus Randy Hays, 31, and Christopher Myers, 27, beat up a protester with a riot baton and kicked him, although he was complying with their orders.
Unknown to them, the man was a policeman working undercover.
His injuries were so bad he could not eat and lost 20 pounds.
Now a US federal court has indicted the three officers plus a fourth policeman, Bailey Colletta, 25, for trying to cover up the incident.
The indictment says the undercover cop, known only as L.H., was beaten up ‘while he was compliant and not posing a threat to anyone’.
The protests followed the case of St Louis police officer Jason Stockley.
He killed African-American Anthony Lamar Smith, 24, in December 2011 after chasing him following an alleged drug deal.
Stockley had an unauthorised, personal AK-47 and was recorded on a dash cam during the chase saying he was ‘going to kill’ Smith.
After Smith crashed, Stockley fired five fatal shots.
However, Stockley was found not guilty of first-degree murder, provoking huge protests in the city.
During those protests, police were pelted with rocks and deployed tear gas.
