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February 16, 2021

St. Louis Reaches $5 Million Settlement with Black Undercover Cop Assaulted by White Officers 
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A warning to our audience: The next stories contain disturbing images
and descriptions of violence. In Missouri, the city of St. Louis is
paying a $5 million settlement to a Black police officer who was
assaulted by white officers in 2017 while working undercover at an
anti-police-brutality protest. Luther Hall was reportedly thrown to the
ground, kicked and beaten with a baton, leaving him severely injured. In
a lawsuit filed in 2019, Hall says the white officers then tried to
cover up the assault. At least four officers involved in the attack were
federally indicted in 2018.


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