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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Andrea Blanco

Missouri governor plans to pardon Kansas City police officer who shot dead Black man

JILL TOYOSHIBA

A prosecutor has issued a public plea urging Missouri Governor Mike Parson not to pardon a former police detective over the fatal shooting of a Black man.

Eric DeValkenaere was convicted in 2021 of involuntary manslaughter and armed criminal action in the December 2019 death of 26-year-old Cameron Lamb.

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