Speaking from 1st hand experience, they devastated parts of the city, and county. They set fires to Quick Trip with the employees inside. Luckily, they escaped. So many crimes committed! Yet, they're rewarded.

by Jim Hᴏft Aug. 6, 2023

St. Louis is the latest Democrat-run city to offer massive payouts to leftist protesters and rioters who caused havoc in their communities and are now winning big payouts from local courts.

This time the money goes to radical leftists arrested following the acquittal of a police officer who fatally shot heroin dealer Anthony Lamar Smith.

Anthony Lamar Smith, a 24-year-old African American resident of St. Louis, Missouri, lost his life in December 2011 after being pursued in a car chase and subsequently shot by Jason Stockley, who was serving as a St. Louis Police officer at that time.

In 2017, The Gateway Pundit reported that a St. Louis judge found former Police Officer Jason Stockley NOT GUILTY of first-degree murder in the shooting death of Anthony Smith, a suspected heroin dealer who rammed Stockley’s police car with his vehicle.

Black Lives Matter held protests daily following the verdict. Protesters stormed a local hotel the Cheshire Inn and harassed patrons in their rooms and at the pool.

“St. Louis has paid more than $10 million altogether in connection with police actions on Sept. 17, 2017. That includes a $5 million payment to Luther Hall, a Black undercover officer who said he was assaulted by fellow police officers who thought he was a protester,” ABC News reported.

St. Louis joins the expanding list of cities where rioters, who caused widespread destruction of businesses and engaged in rampant looting, are seemingly being rewarded for their actions.

Also in the last two years, New York City, Washington DC and Denver have agreed to shell out millions in taxpayer money as settlements to the protesters and rioters involved in the violent “2020 Summer of Love” protests.

Last month, New York City officials agreed to pay $13 million to violent protesters and rioters.

Over 1,300 protesters are eligible to be paid nearly $9,950 for police action during their violence, looting, arson, and property destruction at the riots following the death of George Floyd in Minnesota that year.

This does not include the payments to roughly 300 protesters who were awarded nearly $12 million in individual lawsuits against the city.

In March, a federal jury in Denver awarded $14 million in compensatory and punitive damages to 12 Black Lives Matter protesters injured by police during a riot over the death of George Floyd.

And in 2021 Washington DC officials paid out over $1.6 million to the violent protesters who disrupted President Trump’s Inauguration in Washington DC.

It should be noted that more police officers were injured in the 2020 BLM riots in Washington, DC, than during the January 6 protests at the US Capitol.

A lot more.

114 police officers were assaulted at the Capitol Hill protests.
180 police officers were assaulted and injured during the BLM riots in Washington, DC alone in the summer of 2020.

And… Four Trump supporters were killed at the US Capitol on January 6.
Zero were killed during the violent BLM riots in Washington, DC.

In 2020 Black Lives Matter-Antifa mobs caused up to 2 billion dollars in damages in cities across America. In Minneapolis alone, Black Lives Matter mobs damaged or destroyed over 1,500 businesses or buildings.

This compares to 1.5 million in estimated damages on January 6, 2021 by Trump supporters and federal and leftist infiltrators in the crowd.

Over 700 police officers were injured in the BLM riots nationally — and that was just the first half of 2020!