>> A police officer in St. Louis actually admitted to lying to the FBI and to a federal
grand jury, also pleading guilty to a federal charge.
And all of this has to do with the arrest of an undercover officer during an anti-police
brutality protest.
Now the officer in question, her name is Bailey Colletta.
Let me tell you more about the arrest of the undercover officer, another officer.
Prosecutors allege that officers Dustin Boone, Randy Hayes and Christopher Myers threw a
22-year police veteran to the ground and kicked and hit him with the police baton on September
17 back in 2017, amid protests downtown that followed the acquittal of former police officer
Jason Stockly on a murder charge for the fatal shooting of Anthony Lamar Smith.
These officers thought the undercover officer was a protester.
So they assaulted him, that's what prosecutors alleged.
And the next day, after this incident, Colletta, this brings us back to the officer that pleaded
guilty today.
Colletta made a series of false and misleading statements to grand jurors, among them, that
Luther Hall, that is the undercover detective, undercover detective Luther Hall was brought
to the ground very gently, Assistant US Attorney Reginald Harris said in court.
She also gave grand jurors misleading and inconsistent explanations about what she falsely
called a textbook arrest of Hall.
And we have some more details into just what she called at the time, a textbook arrest.
Let me tell you this, undercover detective Luther Hall was kicked in the face which inflamed
his jaw muscles to the point of where he could not eat.
He went for about 185 pounds to 165.
The cut above his lip was a two centimeter hole that went through his face.
He also sustained an injury to his tailbone, which still causes him pain, resources say.
And in October, he underwent surgery to repair two herniated disc in his neck, and one in
his back.
He had to wear a collar to keep his neck immobile.
>> Textbook.
>> Textbook arrest, yeah.
Colletta faces up to 37 months in prison for the false statements to the grand jury.
>> With the incidents of police meetings it kinda, it might be textbook.
>> It might be the textbook.
>> It is textbook.
I mean also, I when I read this story, I was thinking the whole time I was like, why does
the St. Louis police have to put a cop undercover into the Ferguson protest?
>> That's important too because a lot of the feedback from the protesters is that there
wasn't even much protesting.
There was no violence.
No one was violent, no more an issue, but they had someone pretending to be a protester
to try to create, try to catch illegal activity.
>> Yeah, it sounds to me like they were, you know, they were probably undercover to try
to incite more, you know, get people riled more.
That's what they usually do in these kind of situations because they, the official explanation
is that they were there undercover trying to monitor property damage.
But I don't understand why you need to be undercover to do that, you can just like stand
on the street while watching- >> Right, it's even better when you're in
uniform.
You are less likely to damage property.
So why they would hide?
>> Yeah this is why, it's just like they, it goes back a long way in this country where
the sort of law enforcement, the FBI, I mean they they really feel the need to infiltrate
any kind of social movement.
They've done it throughout history, Black Lives Matter is no different, I mean they're
probably more infiltrated than a lot of the other ones.
But yeah, that to me was incredibly suspicious, why would they ever do that in the first place?
>> Right, it's like the police said, we need to infiltrate this group to discover what
kind of violent tendencies there might be affiliated with.
And there are violent tendencies affiliated, it's just the cops beating them up is the
violent tendency affiliated.
It makes you choose between this idea of, are the cops trying to get behind the scenes
to work their way up in this organization, and then go against the giant threat that
is Black Lives Matter?
Like no- >> Yeah, armed insurgency, yeah-
>> A group that just wants equal rights.
>> But here's the other choice you have.
The other choice is that the police officer was just being undercover to monitor it, just
to kind of see what it's like.
In which case, you would think the police officer, being a police officer would act
just like everyone else, if you're undercover.
Or you would just act like a normal person there.
You would just try not to incite any violence.
But it seems like the barrier for beating up protesters is so low that they got beaten
up.
>> Anyway, yeah.
>> I would assume that a police officer wouldn't be that person go like, attacking the other
police.
An undercover police officer would want to, I don't know, not blow their cover.
>> Which is exactly what the prosecutors say, that he didn't do anything, that you know.
I just want to note that the other three officers, the ones that were actually charged with the
assault, they are not pleading guilty.
And their trial is set to start I think, at the end of this year
>> Have you guys been wise to this this whole phenomena, about like the Ferguson protesters
winding up dead in their cars.
>> I've seen that, I've read about that.
>> Six people that were tied to the leadership of the protest in Ferguson have wound up dead,
shot in their cars, and then their cars lit on fire.