**Update: An earlier version of this article used the word “pardon” as opposed to “commute” or “freed.” We have updated it throughout the piece.**
JEFFERSON CITY, MO – Missouri Governor Mike Parson has reduced the already lenient six-year sentence of Eric DeValkenaere, the white KCPD detective convicted of executing Cameron Lamb in his own backyard in December 2019. While this commutation doesn’t erase DeValkenaere’s historic conviction – it ensures the killer cop will walk free after serving a fraction of his sentence.
This is nothing short of a declaration of war against, and a license to kill Black people in Missouri…