Security firm involved in St Louis shooting has history of lawsuits

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11. I know why they were hired

I used to live in that area, Flora Place is a very nice street in an area that has been tipping on the "iffy" line. Many four family flats (thats what I lived in) in the area. The public schools are not in good shape so the majority of persons left the area, so the flats went downhill (you can read white flight here). With the changing demographic of the area those in the big homes (Flora Place) became afraid of those in the flats (white fear) so they hired private security to "police" their street out of fear of their neighbors. I will go out on a limb and say the pedestrian stops were encouraged to keep persons who live in the area from walking in Flora Place to their nearby flat, in other words white fear of a changing area, its a public street not a private subdivision so they can't gate it so they went to as close as you can to a gate and hired off duty police.