Despite St. Louis mayor's opposition, progressive groups backing police oversight bill
Representatives of organizations like Arch City Defenders and Action St. Louis and urged aldermen to advance the plan.
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Representatives of organizations like Arch City Defenders and Action St. Louis and urged aldermen to advance the plan.
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.
It’s been three years since Tammy Bufford’s son was shot and killed by St. Louis police in a dark south city gangway. On the day...
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.