A former American police officer in St. Louis, Missouri has been charged with the 2011 on-duty shooting death of an unarmed African American man.
St. Louis Police and US Marshals arrested Jason Stockley, 35, on Monday at his home in Houston, Texas, St. Louis Circuit Attorney’s Office spokeswoman Susan Ryan said.
The white policeman shot into Anthony Lamar Smith’s car on December 11, 2011, sparking a high speed chase that ended in the 24-year-old black man’s death.
Stockley was on the passenger seat of a police SUV that chased Smith at speeds of up to 80 miles per hour and could be heard on an internal police car video as saying “going to kill this ******, don’t you know it,” the prosecutor’s office said in a statement.
When Smith’s car crashed and slowed down, Stockley directed his partner to smash into the victim’s car.
He then got out of the SUV, approached the driver’s side of Smith’s vehicle and shot him five times, the statement…