Four months after his violent arrest at a board of trustee meeting made national headlines, an adjunct instructor has won acquittal in court.
Steve Taylor, who taught math at St. Louis Community College, had risen to speak against a prohibition on clapping during the public comment portion of a trustee meeting at the college in October. But a St. Louis police officer violently tackled him from behind — and Taylor was then given citations for resisting arrest and disturbing the peace.
City prosecutors previously declined to pursue the case for resisting arrest (a fact perhaps attributed to the video released by the college, which shows Taylor stumbling forward, but in no way resisting).…