Luther Hall, a St Louis police officer, was present at a street protest in 2017 where he was working undercover. His disguise was apparently so good that his fellow officers failed to recognise him when they mercilessly beat him on the street. On Monday, Mr Hall was awarded $23.5m for the attack, according to the St Louis American. The incident occurred two days after Jason Stockley, a former St Louis police officer, was acquitted of the fatal shooting of Anthony Lamar Smith. Police expected that there could be protests following the acquittal, and dispatched 200 officers from a “Civil Disobedience Team” that weekend in 2017. More than 120 people were arrested, including Mr Hall and his colleague Louis Naes, a white officer also embedded undercover with the marchers. Mr Naes told investigators that his arrest was “routine,” but said police clad in riot-gear “beat the f*** out of [Mr Hall] like Rodney King”. Former St Louis police officer Luther Hall pictured here with injuries he sustained when his colleagues beat him during a protest in …