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Article snippet: ST. LOUIS — Hundreds of demonstrators gathered outside this city’s police headquarters on Sunday, and stood silent for six minutes — one for every year that has passed since the death of Anthony Lamar Smith, who was fatally shot by the police in 2011. It was the third day of protests following the acquittal of a white former St. Louis police officer, Jason Stockley, who shot Mr. Smith, a black 24-year-old, five times. The shooting has been a matter of intense debate in St. Louis, but before this weekend it had drawn little attention elsewhere and the details of the case are not widely known outside the St. Louis region. Here are answers to some essential questions about the case, which was conducted without a jury. Prosecutors charged Mr. Stockley with first-degree murder and armed criminal action. They pointed to a remark Mr. Stockley made to his partner on the day of the shooting as evidence of premeditation. Their police sport-utility vehicle was racing after Mr. Smith’s silver Buick, which had hit the police vehicle twice and fled at high speed, when a recording device inside the officers’ vehicle captured Mr. Stockley saying he was “going to kill” the driver, “don’t you know it.” Prosecutors also suggested that Mr. Stockley had planted a gun inside Mr. Smith’s car after the chase ended and Mr. Smith lay dead. Video images showed that immediately after shooting Mr. Smith, Mr. Stockley returned to his own police S.U.V., and only later found a handgun tucked in... Link to the full article to read more