ArchCity’s Fatal State Violence project found that from 2009 to 2019, at least 132 people have been killed by police in the St. Louis region. The group uses the analysis to support their calls to action.
On Dec. 12, 2019, near the corner of Bates and Virginia in St. Louis’ Carondelet neighborhood, 24-year-old Cortez Bufford died after being shot multiple times by St. Louis police Officer Lucas Roethlisberger. The case, like that night, has remained shrouded in darkness, as investigative journalists Alison Flowers and Sam Stecklow detail in their newly published Intercept deep dive.