‘Courtesy Ride’: Missouri Cops Claim They Were Doing Black Man a Favor By Nearly Killing Him Instead of Transporting Him to Jail for Shoplifting
Attorneys for the Missouri cops who arrested a Black man for shoplifting in 2023 claimed they were doing him a favor by beating, tasering, and pepper-spraying him before abandoning him with a broken jaw in a remote field — describing it as a “courtesy ride” — because they did not transport him to jail. But…
