In 2017 St Louis police officers were itching to beat up some protestors...they unknowingly roughed up one of their own undercover colleagues

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In 2017 there were protests happening in St Louis after a Black man there was shot to death by police and was acquitted by the courts. This group of white police officers shared messages with each other stating that they were looking forward to beating up and getting in fights with the protestors at the upcoming demonstration, and that they could do anything cause they'd be in riot gear and unrecognizable. 

So the cops picked out a Black man from the crowd and started the beat in up with their batons and such claiming he was resisting and a was threat to them. Ended up being that Black man was himself an undercover police officer that had been planted in the protesting crowd. The dude had broken bones, and other internal and external injuries that needed hospitalization.

The white officers then tried to cover it up, tried to get the black officer not to cooperate with the investigation, tried to alter documentation and lied to the investigators and even under oath to a grand jury. The officers even had the nerve to admit to one another that they would have gotten away with it if it hadn't of been a cop they abused. 

 

That cop has now been awarded $23.5 million in damages and the cops have served some jail time and probation for violating his rights. 

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/crime/black-undercover-officer-beaten-st-louis-b2531716.html

https://apnews.com/article/st-louis-officer-beating-235-million-award-e02ff1a30667a4872afea1a0675b4c77