Many stories have been coming out over the past few days of bad behavior on the part of the St. Louis Police Department in their handling of protestors. The protests were set off after former officer Jason Stockley was found not guilty in the death of Anthony Lamar Smith on Friday. Resist St. Louis’s Facebook page posted the video which shows an older woman trying to turn to get out of the way but unable to move as quickly as the oncoming police. She falls and gets stepped on a couple of times while police pepper spray the young man reaching back to help her up.
The St. Louis Police Department had this to say about the video:
Considering how easily this lady could have been handled by anyone showing a modicum of decency, it’s no surprise that the police departments in our country have a bad reputation with entire swathes of the American citizenry. Be a person.
Below is the handheld image of the woman up close. It’s much harder to follow.