Ex-St Louis officer’s conviction points up revolving door for disgraced police

Ellis Brown III, who was found guilty of beating a restrained and prostrate suspect, had been forced out of a neighbouring force

A former St Louis police officer with a track record of violence, including the killing of a mentally disturbed Black man that was condemned as amounting to an execution, has been convicted of beating a suspect as he lay restrained and prostrate on the ground.

Ellis Brown III was found guilty by a federal jury last week after an internal police inquiry cleared him over a car chase in 2019 which ended with the then detective severely kicking Steven Kolb after he surrendered.