Civil Rights Lawsuit-Cops Tase Man For Avoiding Icy Sidewalk And Walking In Street [picture]

 St Louis strikes Again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

“If you think this stuff is simple, you don’t understand.”  

That’s how St. Louis Post-Dispatch columnist Bill McClellan concluded his column about LaDonte Gaines-Gracy. (The February 1 piece is, sadly, trapped behind the Post-Dispatch‘s paywall.) McClellan had attended Gaines-Gracy’s trial in Jennings Municipal Court. He watched the 21-year-old take a deal offered by the prosecution, opting to plead guilty to littering rather than going to trial to fight charges for resisting arrest, assaulting a police officer and walking in the street. 

McClellan was clearly disturbed by what he’d witnessed. Gaines-Gracy, a high school graduate who made his living by caring for a disabled great-uncle, had been stopped by a Jennings police cruiser on February 14, 2014. The stop ended with the officers slamming Gaines-Gracy to the ground, tasing him twice and placing him under arrest.                         source