Ex-officer sentenced to four years in prison for beating his Black undercover colleague at a protest

[Eugene]

Source: Washington Post

A former St. Louis police officer who attacked a Black undercover colleague he thought was a protester will serve more than four years behind bars.

Randy Hays, 34, pleaded guilty in 2019 to using excessive and unreasonable force during a September 2017 incident in which he and other White officers brutally beat and arrested Luther Hall, who was gathering information as protests erupted after a controversial court ruling.

A federal judge sentenced Hays during a court appearance Tuesday in which he expressed being “greatly sorry” for his actions, the St. Louis Post Dispatch reported.

“I am a good person, but I made a mistake," he said.

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By Lateshia Beachum
July 14, 2021|Updated today at 6:07 p.m. EDT


Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/07/14/police-beating-undercover-protest-stlouis/

[Me.]

1. Brutally Beating Some one In A Racist Fit Is Not A 'Mistake'

[The Magistrate]

2. First Off, Sir, He Is Not A Good Man

He is a bullying racist thug, who should be behind bars for far more than four years.

Second, the man who was beaten is little better, for accepting an assignment that amounted to trying to prevent people from exercising their rights under the Constitution. I have more sympathy for things I've scraped off the sole of my shoe than I do for him, and I damned well hope it hurt when he got paid off proper.

[3Hotdogs]

4. Thank you for your second paragraph.

You saved me having to point that out.

[luckone]

3. Good he can't harm anyone on the street for 4 years

[LudwigPastorius]

5. If the "protester" wasn't a cop,...

he’d never even be facing charges.

[AZLD4Candidate]

6. How many times did you make a "mistake?"

And by that, I mean that each blow was a mistake, so how many did you make in your "big mistake?"

BTW, he thought was a protestor. . .by that logic, police have declared war on the 1st amendment. How have we not lurched into police state territory?

[cstanleytech]

7. "I am a good person" uh huh, sure you are. NT

[Indykatie]

8. Pleaded Guilty in 2019 But Is Just Being Sentenced Now. WTF?