Police officer charged woth first degree murder in..

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People march downtown in St. Louis on Sept. 15, 2017, after a not-guilty verdict was issued in the trial of Jason Stockley, a former police officer charged with first-degree murder in the 2011 shooting of Anthony Lamar Smith. Stockley, who is white, had insisted he saw Smith, a black man, holding a gun and felt he was in imminent danger, the Associated Press reports. Prosecutors said Stockley planted a gun in Smith's car after the shooting. The judge declared he would not be swayed by "partisan interests, public clamor or fear of criticism."

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