Posted on 08/21/2014 5:21:55 AM PDT by markomalley
An officer who was working at the Ferguson protests was caught on camera pointing a semi-automatic weapon at a peaceful demonstrator and saying "I will f****ng kill you." Yesterday, it was announced the police officer was suspended indefinitely.
The incident just before midnight on Tuesday punctuated the 11th straight night of racially charged demonstrations in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson, Missouri, since Brown, an unarmed 18-year-old, was slain by a white police officer.
No one was hurt in the gun-pointing confrontation, but the incident underscored what many have criticized as heavy-handed and unprofessional police tactics that have helped stoke continuing civil unrest.
According to an official account from the St. Louis County Police Department, an unnamed policeman from the neighboring community of St. Ann leveled his weapon at a Ferguson protester "after a verbal exchange," and that a superior county officer, a sergeant, quickly intervened.
According to a statement from the county police department, the sergeant "immediately took action, forcing the officer to lower the weapon and escorting him away from the area."
At one point, he is heard yelling, "I will f****ng kill you, get back, get back," before the sergeant calmly steps in to defuse the situation, orders him to lower the weapon and leads him away from cameras.
"The unified command strongly feel these actions are inappropriate, and not indicative of the officers who have worked daily to keep the peace," the police statement said.
It said the officer in question had been relieved of duty and suspended indefinitely but gave no further details of any investigation or discipline he might face.
He meant to say “I will protect and serve the hell out of you”.
“”” since Brown, an unarmed 18-year-old, was slain by a white police officer.”””””
Make sure you put UNARMED LITTLE BOY in every story ever written about this deal. They never seem to mention that this nice young boy used his arms to bust the cops face.
Good. He was very unprofessional and not trustworthy dealing with other humans. Just a bully with a badge.
I wouldn’t mind being suspended with the way things are going there.
Sounds like a county cop who was brought in.
Hey if the dude doesn’t want to do his job he can resign
Sure look that way in the video. Of course, you don’t see what the people in the crowd might have been doing to provoke him. Even so, he should have kept his cool.
What an idiot. He might as well be on the payroll of the provocateurs.
ENOUGH with the “unarmed black teenager” propaganda.
There were 726 homicides committed in 2011 alone with hands, fists and feet, and the majority of those homicides were committed by young black males.
More homicides are committed each year with hands, fists and feet than are committed with rifles and shotguns combined, including 2012 when the Newtown, Connecticut and Aurora, Colorado mass-murders occurred.
A 6’4” 292-pound documented violent thug like Saint Michael would be more than capable of killing a cop with his bare hands and Air Jordans.
No cop in his right mined, signed up for this p.c. b.s.
“18-year-old”
It’s so hard to keep things straight. I thought that “boy” was the ultimate offense. Now it’s mandatory.
Weeded that one out....Saying what he said doesn’t help his fellow brothers and sisters....nor you and me....nor officer Wilson
Yeah, if someone has that kind of a hairtrigger temper he really needs to find another line of work.
I readily admit that I would make an absolutely terrible cop.
We’d all be in jail facing felony charges for doing this, but we’re not pigs.
I’m glad they suspended him, but I’m only surprised it doesn’t happen more often because of the pressure these guys are under. Do you know what it’s like to just stand there doing your job and have these people scram all sorts of hatred and filth at you? Not to mention threats to you and your family.
I think there’s a lot of superhuman self-control going on there. Not mentioned is what the “peaceful protester” said to the cop first.
I think all the cops should call in sick, tell the store owners to arm up and then let nature take its course.......
He was probably just repeating what dude said to him 30 seconds before dude fired up his cellphone video.
Also, that was real smart of that idiot calling the cop “officer go fv7k yourself”. Real smart when you’ve got a rifle trained on ya by a guy who might be a little stressed out. Having said all that, it does look bad for the cop.
A Thug With A Badge....
That guy has no business being a Police Officer. He should be fired immediately.
A soldier in Afghanistan would be facing at least an Article 15...probably a CM if the video got enough widespread distribution.
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