Some of the people who were arrested during a 2017 protest over the acquittal of a white police officer in the shooting death of Anthony Lamar Smith have started receiving their share of a $4.9 million settlement the city agreed to this year.
FILE - Protesters gather in St. Louis, Sept. 15, 2017, after a judge found a white former St. Louis police officer, Jason Stockley, not guilty of first-degree murder in the death of a black man, Anthony Lamar Smith, who was fatally shot following a high-speed chase in 2011. Some of the people who were arrested during a 2017 protest over the acquittal of Stockley in the shooting death of Smith have started receiving their share of a $4.9 million settlement the city agreed to.
Dekita Roberts told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that she initially thought it might be a scam when she first got the call about the settlement. Another man who picked up his check Friday, Ali Bey, 36, said he plans to use the money to start his own construction company. They were among the crowd of people protesting after former St. Louis police officer Jason Stockley was acquitted in the Dec. 20, 2011, shooting death of Smith, who was Black.
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