A window that was broken during protests in St. Louis over the acquittal of ex-cop Jason Stockley. (Scott Olson\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n
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St. Louis is the latest Democrat-run city to offer massive payouts to leftist protesters and rioters who caused havoc in their communities and are now winning big payouts from local courts.<\/p>\n
This time the money goes to radical leftists arrested following the acquittal of a police officer who fatally shot heroin dealer Anthony Lamar Smith.<\/p>\n
Anthony Lamar Smith, a 24-year-old African American resident of St. Louis, Missouri, lost his life in December 2011 after being pursued in a car chase and subsequently shot by Jason Stockley, who was serving as a St. Louis Police officer at that time.<\/p>\n
In 2017, The Gateway Pundit reported<\/a> that a St. Louis judge found former Police Officer Jason Stockley NOT GUILTY of first-degree murder in the shooting death of Anthony Smith, a suspected heroin dealer who rammed Stockley\u2019s police car with his vehicle.<\/p>\n Black Lives Matter held protests daily following the verdict. Protesters stormed a local hotel the Cheshire Inn and harassed patrons<\/a>\u00a0in their rooms and at the pool.<\/p>\n Protesters sprayed police officers with an unknown liquid.<\/p>\n Officers confiscate bottles with unknown chemicals used to against police tonight in downtown #stl<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/PUaJagBzn2<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 St. Louis County PD (@stlcountypd) September 18, 2017<\/a><\/p>\n\n St. Louis Police arrested around 80 protesters on the third day of rioting.<\/p>\n After a week of violent protests where over a dozen police officers were injured and several businesses were vandalized, the St. Louis Aldermen sprung to action. The St. Louis Alderman passed a resolution to honor<\/a> Anthony Smith \u2014 the heroin dealer who tried to drive over Officer Stockley.<\/p>\n St. Louis Board of Aldermen pays tribute to Anthony Lamar Smith https:\/\/t.co\/Q3J6zvVZPG<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/Gudh29YTsM<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 St. Louis Post-Dispatch (@stltoday) September 22, 2017<\/a><\/p>\n\n St. Louis, Missouri, agreed earlier this year to pay the settlement over allegations of police misconduct during mass arrests in 2017.<\/p>\n As of Friday, a portion of the 84 plaintiffs involved in a lawsuit against the city began receiving their respective shares of a $4.9 million settlement agreed upon earlier this year.<\/p>\n The plaintiff\u2019s lawsuit alleged that their rights were violated when police employed a controversial \u201ckettling\u201d technique, surrounding and arresting everyone present within a defined area. In addition to these 84 individuals, three others who had filed individual lawsuits settled for $85,000 each.<\/p>\n The city will give payouts between $28,000 and more than $150,000, according<\/a> to ABC News.<\/strong><\/p>\n Dekita Roberts, one of the recipients of the settlement payout, was in disbelief when she received the call informing her of the settlement. Speaking to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, she shared plans to invest some of the funds and set aside a portion for her children.<\/p>\n Another recipient, Ali Bey, 36, expressed his plans to use the money to kickstart his own construction company.<\/p>\n \u201cThis takes five steps out of the way for me,\u201d he told Dispatch. \u201cAs far as getting a truck and tools, I can begin doing that by the end of the day. I already got some of the clientele.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cSt. Louis has paid more than $10 million altogether in connection with police actions on Sept. 17, 2017. That includes a $5 million payment to Luther Hall, a Black undercover officer who said he was assaulted by fellow police officers who thought he was a protester,\u201d ABC News reported.<\/p>\n \u201cIn 2021, the city also agreed to pay $115,000 to a Kansas City filmmaker who said he was beaten and pepper-sprayed during the protests,\u201d the outlet added.<\/p>\n St. Louis joins the expanding list of cities where rioters, who caused widespread destruction of businesses and engaged in rampant looting, are seemingly being rewarded for their actions.<\/strong><\/p>\n Also in the last two years, New York City, Washington DC<\/strong> and Denver<\/strong> have agreed to shell out millions in taxpayer money as settlements to the protesters and rioters involved in the violent \u201c2020 Summer of Love\u201d protests.<\/p>\n Last month, New York City officials agreed to pay $13 million<\/a> to violent protesters and rioters.<\/p>\n Over 1,300 protesters are eligible to be paid nearly $9,950 for police action during their violence, looting, arson, and property destruction at the riots following the death of George Floyd in Minnesota that year.<\/p>\n This does not include the payments to roughly\u00a0300 protesters who were awarded nearly $12 million<\/a>\u00a0in individual lawsuits against the city.<\/p>\n In March, a federal jury in Denver awarded $14 million<\/a> in compensatory and punitive damages to 12 Black Lives Matter protesters injured by police during a riot over the death of George Floyd.<\/p>\n And in 2021 Washington DC officials paid out over $1.6 million<\/a> to the violent protesters who disrupted President Trump\u2019s Inauguration in Washington DC.<\/p>\n It should be noted that more police officers were injured in the 2020 BLM riots in Washington, DC, than during the January 6 protests at the US Capitol.<\/p>\n A lot more.<\/p>\n 114 police officers<\/strong>\u00a0were assaulted at the Capitol Hill protests. And\u2026<\/strong>\u00a0Four Trump supporters were killed at the US Capitol on January 6. In 2020 Black Lives Matter-Antifa mobs caused up to 2 billion dollars in damages<\/a> in cities across America. In Minneapolis alone, Black Lives Matter mobs damaged or destroyed over\u00a01,500 businesses<\/a>\u00a0or buildings.<\/p>\n This compares to 1.5 million\u00a0in estimated damages<\/a> on January 6, 2021 by Trump supporters and federal and leftist infiltrators in the crowd.<\/p>\n Over\u00a0700 police officers were injured<\/a>\u00a0in the BLM riots nationally \u2014 and that was just the first half of 2020!<\/p>\n This is one of those facts no one would believe if it wasn\u2019t in fact \u2026 a fact.<\/p>\n pic.twitter.com\/UcmkPSS37V<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 IT Guy (@ITGuy1959) March 9, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n\n The post Saint Louis Rioters are the Latest to Win a Huge Payout \u2013 Leftists Rewarded $4.9 Million following their Violent Protests in 2017 that Terrorized the City<\/a> appeared first on The Gateway Pundit<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A window that was broken during protests in St. Louis over the acquittal of ex-cop Jason Stockley. 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\n180 police officers<\/strong> were assaulted and injured during the BLM riots in Washington, DC alone in the summer of 2020.<\/p>\n
\nZero were killed during the violent BLM riots in Washington, DC.<\/p>\n