… one of whom was an undercover police officer.
https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/st-louis-police-officers-indicted-accused-of-beating-an-undercover/article_4a82d209-b3cd-565e-9a97-309cf1c2a5af.html
Robert Patrick in St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Prosecutors allege that officers Dustin Boone, Randy Hays and Christopher Myers threw a 22-year police veteran to the ground and kicked and hit him with a police baton on Sept. 17, 2017, amid protests downtown that followed the acquittal of former police Officer Jason Stockley on a murder charge for the fatal shooting of Anthony Lamar Smith. They believed the undercover officer was a protester and assaulted him “while he was compliant and not posing a physical threat to anyone,” the indictment says.
Officer Bailey Colletta is accused of lying to a federal grand jury investigating the incident.
The protest was about the acquittal of a former officer charged with first degree murder in a 2011 incident.
The undercover policeman/protester was beaten so badly that he couldn’t eat afterwards and lost 20 pounds. He is still not back to work. I wonder if he was going undercover to watch the protesters or watch how the police handled them?
One article said that he was watching for “criminal activity”, which is pretty generic and could mean anything or everything that could be illegal.