‘Black skin was a death warrant’: how the East St Louis race massacre was an omen for racial violence to come | US news | The Guardian

Four year before the Tulsa race massacre, white mobs firebombed homes and decimated a Black community in Illinois…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/dec/18/black-skin-was-a-death-warrant-how-the-east-st-louis-race-massacre-was-an-omen-for-racial-violence-to-come

Former St. Louis cop sentenced to four years for beating undercover cop - The Washington Post

… Randy Hays, 34, pleaded guilty in 2019 to using excessive and unreasonable force during a September 2017 incident in which he and other White officers brutally beat and arrested Luther Hall, who was gathering information as protests erupted after a controversial court ruling...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/07/14/police-beating-undercover-protest-stlouis/

All but three people who died from COVID-19 in St. Louis were black - Business Insider

In St. Louis, at least 14 of the city's 17 residents who died from the novel virus were also African American.
https://www.businessinsider.com/all-but-three-people-who-died-from-covid-19-in-st-louis-were-black-2020-4