Prosecutor WILL NOT charge two white St. Louis cops over fatal shooting of black 18-year-old Mansur Ball-Bey saying they did it in self-defense
Prosecutor WILL NOT charge two white St. Louis cops over fatal shooting of black 18-year-old Mansur Ball-Bey saying they did it in self-defense
- Circuit Attorney Jennifer Joyce called Mansur Ball-Bey’s August 2015 death ‘a tragedy in every aspect of the word’
- Joyce said the officers and a witness reported that an armed Ball-Bey ran from a home during a drug and gun raid
- Both officers have said they fired at Ball-Bey at the same time after he pointed a gun at one of them, though one officer missed, according to Joyce
Mansur Ball Bey’s death came a little more than a year after a white police officer, Darren Wilson, shot and killed Michael Brown, a black, unarmed 18-year-old, in nearby Ferguson, Missouri. Ball-Bey…
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