St. Louis Officer Charged for Being High on Cocaine While He Shot a Man in the Back

‘Two weeks ago, a housing authority officer was called to the John DeShields Homes, where he encountered a 20-year-old man running within the vicinity of a robbery. Arthur Sargeant, 48 allegedly shot the man in the back, and although the suspect was taken to the hospital, he was never arrested or charged with a crime.

In this area of St. Louis, the neighborhoods are patrolled by agents who are still hired by the state, but are under an entirely different jurisdiction than the official police department. On paper, they are nothing more than security guards, but in these communities they act as police, indiscriminately invading people’s privacy and arresting people for nonviolent crimes with no victims.

However, St. Clair County State’s Attorney Brendan Kelly said that he will be charged to the same extent that an average citizen would.’

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