By: Alyssa Wilson WARNING: This story contains details of police violence. A former St. Louis police officer has been sentenced to a little over four years in jail for beating a Black undercover colleague who he thought was a protester. According to The Washington Post, 34-year-old Randy Hays pleaded guilty in 2019 to using excessive and unreasonable force. During the incident in September 2017, Hays and other white officers brutally beat Luther Hall before arresting him. Hall was working undercover to gather information on protests that erupted after a white officer was acquitted in the shooting death of a Black man, […]
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