Missouri

St. Louis prosecutor: Racist interests try to force her out

January 13, 2020 4:16 PM

Published January 13, 2020 4:14 PM

ST. LOUIS (AP)

St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner has filed what she calls an unprecedented federal civil rights lawsuit, accusing the city, the local police union and others of a coordinated and racist conspiracy aimed at forcing her out of office.

In the lawsuit filed Monday, Gardner, the city's elected prosecutor, accuses “entrenched interests” of intentionally impeding her efforts to reform racist practices in the criminal justice system. The lawsuit alleges civil rights violations as well as violations of the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871.

Gardner is black. The defendants named in the lawsuit are white.

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