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O’FALLON, Mo. (AP) – A Missouri police officer who killed a man during a shootout on Interstate 44 last year was “fully justified” and will not face criminal charges, St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney Wesley Bell said Wednesday.Qavon Webb, 23, died in a shootout May 5 with the Webster Groves officer whose name was not released. The officer was shot but survived.
Dashboard camera video shows the officer pulling over to check on Webb, whose car was stopped in the left lane. As the officer approaches Webb’s car, Webb emerges and begins shooting, Bell’s office said in a news release. The officer was struck several times but was mostly protected by his bulletproof vest.
By City News Service
Jan 23, 2021
LOS ANGELES (CNS) - Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascon who has issued a directive against seeking the death penalty against defendants in murder cases being prosecuted in the county is among more than 100 people to call on President Joe Biden to commute the sentences of all federal death row inmates.
The county s new top prosecutor joined the letter s author, St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney Wesley Bell, in urging the president to ``begin your administration with an act of mercy that would carry our nation closer toward justice.
Gascon is among seven district attorneys, commonwealth attorneys and state s attorneys who signed the letter, which calls a death sentence ``both flawed and irrevocable and ``an instrument of racial bias, disproportionately taking the lives of Black and brown people.
Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón who has issued a directive against seeking the death penalty against defendants in murder cases being prosecuted in the county is among more than 100 people to call on President Joe Biden to commute the sentences of all federal death row inmates.
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The county’s new top prosecutor joined the letter’s author, St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney Wesley Bell, in urging the president to “begin your administration with an act of mercy that would carry our nation closer toward justice.”
Gascón is among seven district attorneys, commonwealth attorneys and state’s attorneys who signed the letter, which calls a death sentence “both flawed and irrevocable” and “an instrument of racial bias, disproportionately taking the lives of Black and brown people.”