A 13-year veteran of the St.
Louis County Police Department is charged with felony assault after striking a
MetroLink passenger on the hand with his expandable baton following an argument
The St. Louis County
Prosecuting Attorney’s Office on Friday charged 44-year-old Dawon Gore of
Ferguson with second-degree assault. He was jailed on a $3,500, cash-only bond.
Gore is accused of using
excessive force against an unnamed 24-year-old light-rail passenger in late
April at the Hanley Road station in Clayton. He’s been assigned to the department’s
MetroLink unit since May 2012.
A police press release says the
investigation was forwarded to prosecutor Bob McCullough in early May with a
recommendation to press charges.
Gore has been accused of using
excessive force against an unnamed 24-year-old commuter. Don’t want to state
the obvious here, but really? This Black man is about to be put in jail for
hitting a man with his baton and Darren Wilson kills a kid and gets away with
it? Our justice system is beyond corrupt.
