stockly with first degree murder. after a bench trial, a judge found stockly not guilty, and that is where we are now. fox s mike tobin, live on the streets of st. louis, where this has been percolating over the last several days, and now we are on night four. hi, mike. reporter: hi, martha. the work going on behind me now is the preemptive boarding up of windows because another demonstration is coming and del mar loop neighborhood. you can look at the salt and smoke restaurant, you can see they ve got most of the windows boarded up in advance of the demonstrations. some of them were boarded up because on saturday night, they were broken out by these demonstrators. they re supposed to be here in the next half hour, and the trend thus far has been that you have a largely lawful demonstration, given the fact that they block traffic. it is largely lawful. then the people who organize the demonstration will declare that the march is over. some young people hang around and these are the y
said they saw smith orchestrate a drug deal at a fast food parking lot. dashcam footage shows stockly trying to corner smith. smith drives away, nearly hitting the officers. stockly fires several shots before a high speed chase. can you see all of it as it plays out. smith s car slowed down, stockly tells his partner to hit smith and the suv slams into the car. he drew his gun and fired five shots into the car, killing smith. officer stockly said he only fired when smith reached along the seat where a gun was later found. the prosecutors argued that stockly planted the gun, which was found to have stockly s dna, but not smith s. in 2012, a u.s. attorney ruled there was not enough evidence. the circuit attorney said she had new evidence and charged
is not as much fun. martha: let s hope there is rain. here with more, senior analyst on a couple of points here, just the case itself. what do you think, judge? well, as you requested, i read the judge s opinion, and i think the prosecutor made some mistakes, but the basis of the evidence that was presented to him, he found there was a defense of self-defense, meaning the officer s perception that the guy in the car, smith, was did have a gun and was going to use it, was a reasonable perception. there is a lot of countervailing evidence, but i can tell you from having tried cases, i can t second-guess this judge, because i wasn t in the courtroom. in the courtroom, you have the feel for the evidence. you have as an experienced judge, as this judge is, a sixth sense as to whether you believe a particular witness. this judge believed the defendant, and the defense witnesses, and rejected the government s witnesses. this is the cop s own bosses,