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A new video released Tuesday of a 2011 police shooting of a Black man shows the white police officer responsible for the killing planting a gun at the crime scene.
A former St. Louis police officer was charged on May 16 for killing the Black male in 2011 following a car chase.
The video comes amid outrage over excessive force used by police after the killing of hundreds of unarmed Black people, mostly men, have triggered protests across the United States over the past two years.
Jason Stockley, 35, who is white, shot into Anthony Lamar Smith's car on Dec. 11, 2011, sparking a high speed chase. Stockley was a passenger in the police SUV that chased the 24-year-old Smith at speeds reaching 80 miles per hour, according to the prosecutor's investigation.
Stockley's vehicle crashed, and when they began the pursuit again he can be heard through an internal police car video saying he is "going to kill this motherfucker, don't you know it," according to prosecutors.
Smith's car began slowing down after Stockley directed his partner to smash their vehicle into Smith's. After the suspects vehicle grinds to a halt, Stockley can be seen getting out of his car before walking toward the driver's side of Smith's vehicle and shooting him five times, the statement said.
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Police told local media at the time that a weapon was recovered from Smith's vehicle after the killing. The prosecutor's office said the only gun recovered from the scene had Stockley's DNA on it.
Prosecutors at the time did not criminally charge Stockley, who left the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department in 2013. Additional evidence uncovered by a police department and FBI investigation was provided to prosecutors in March and led to Monday's charges.
Smith's family filed a federal lawsuit against the city over the killing, which was settled in 2013 for US$900,000, the largest settlement from a police shooting in the city's history.
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