Dustin Boone's lawyers are really trying to argue that the ex-cop convicted in the beating of detective Luther Hall - who was working undercover at a BLM protest - should get a light sentence because St. Louis officers brutalizing Black people is basically a police love language.
Beating Luther Hall, a Black detective, isn’t egregious enough to find white officers guilty of police brutality, according to one jury in St. Louis.
The criminal trial of three white police officers charged with beating a handcuffed undercover Black detective during the 2017 protests in St. Louis is testing the so-called Blue Wall of Silence as officers have begun turning on one another.
