Summary Of The Jason Stockley Murder Case

Vox’s news article clams that its happened again that a white police officer of unnecessary shooting killed a black man and was founded not guilty by court. Protests has erupted in St. Louise because of this verdict. Jason Stockley shot and killed Anthony Lamar Smith after an alleged drug deal, he claimed he was afraid Smith was reaching into his car to crab a gun. Although, prosecutors argued that Stockley had planted the gun to justify the killing. Prosecutors claimed they heard Stockley saying he was going to kill Smith on the police dashboard camera video but, Stockley’s defense insisted that he never said this and it is hard to make out in the video. Although Stockley’s DNA was founded on the gun that was allegedly placed in Smith’s car,

Louis American Newspaper believes Judge Timothy Wilson, the judge ruling the Jason Stockley murder case is bias. Jason Stockley walked freely from a first-degree murder case which did not sit too well with The St. Louis American newspaper. They believe the justice system is flawed due too suspicious events in the case. 45 seconds before Anthony Lamar Smith’s death, Jason Stockley said he was going to kill him, this seemed like convincing evidence to the case. There is no video or eyewitness evidence to what Stockley saw when he looked in Smith’s vehicle other than his own claims, therefore no one can testify against Stockley since they did not see what happened. Judge Wilson had been judging the DNA evidence and had decided that it was inclusive even though the state’s evidence says, although Smith’s fingerprints are not founded on the gun allegedly in his car, it does not prove that he never handled the gun. Judge Wilson’s final statement was that the court has come to conclusion that an urban heroin dealer not in possession of a firearm would be an anomaly. The newspaper feels that the term “urban” is frequently used as a racial code word and that Wilson expects a black heroin dealer to carry a firearm. Smith’s history of drug dealing should not be pre-judged by Wilson to make his final decision on the murder case. They say there is a biased ruling in favor that a white police officer who killed a (very likely unarmed) black man and that no justice is served to the victims, their families and any American who is fighting for greater racial equality in the justice system. If Wilson had not used racial bias in his case, Stockley would have been convicted on the evidence