We have all heard of the racial turmoil that surrounds police officers and their lives but very rarely do we hear of racial tensions within departments. In the St. Luis police departments it is apparent that there is something going on. Many officers state that there are racial tension between black and white officers. It doesn't just come down to white officers being racist towards black officers, it is also Black officers assuming and blaming several white officers of being racist with no context.
This racial divide in the St. Luis department come to an apex when a white officer shot a black officer. In 2017 officer Milton Green was returning home after his shift patrolling the city, when he arrived home he saw a car that had crashed in front of it with a man standing beside it with a gun in hand. Officer green then preceded to pull out his pistol and his badge and confronted that man, while doing so two police cars pulled up because they were chasing that man that officer Green had stopped. When these officers arrived Green lowered his weapon knowing that he was off shift and the the officers could handle it, a white officer named Christopher Tanner then yelled "Lower your weapon" as Green turned around to show his badge to Tanner he heard a gunshot and realized that officer Tanner had shot him in his write arm.
Because of this incident and the lawsuit filled by now retired Green against Tanner, it has raised alarm to the high ups in the department that something is going on in their city between the blue bloods.
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