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Ten days after Michael Brown, it was 25-year-old Kajieme Powell. Two months later, it was 18-year-old VonDerrit Myers Jr. All in the St. Louis region. Had it not been for the Ferguson uprising, the deaths of these Black men would have likely gone unnoticed, except for a small, dedicated group of activists who have been tracking police shootings since the 1960s. They’d long been troubled by the local police’s treatment of Black residents and its culture of impunity, the opaque investigations and the often mind-boggling conclusions such as the finding that the killing of 25-year-old Cary Ball Jr., shot 25 times at close range in 2013, was justified. ....
St. Louis police block protesters on Sept. 15, 2017, after ex-police officer Jason Stockley was found not guilty of murder. This story was published in partnership with The Trace, a nonprofit newsroom covering gun violence in the U.S. The St. Louis Civilian Oversight Board was founded in 2015 as a check on police power in the wake of the fatal shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson. But despite more than 50 police shootings in the city over the last five years, the police department hasn’t provided the board materials to review a single case. As a result, the oversight board has been unable to fulfill one of its most critical responsibilities, and the one that precipitated its founding: to prevent the department from mishandling investigations of police violence. ....