Posted on 08/30/2014 10:48:48 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Federal investigators are focused on one Ferguson, Mo., police officer who fatally shot an unarmed black teenager, but at least five other police officers and one former officer in the town’s 53-member department have been named in civil rights lawsuits alleging the use of excessive force.
In four federal lawsuits, including one that is on appeal, and more than a half-dozen investigations over the past decade, colleagues of Darren Wilson’s have separately contested a variety of allegations, including killing a mentally ill man with a Taser, pistol-whipping a child, choking and hog-tying a child and beating a man who was later charged with destroying city property because his blood spilled on officers’ clothes.
One officer has faced three internal affairs probes and two lawsuits over claims he violated civil rights and used excessive force while working at a previous police department in the mid-2000s. That department demoted him after finding credible evidence to support one of the complaints, and he subsequently was hired by the Ferguson force...
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No, but by their reasoning, a recent event is grounds for examining the entire military and rehashing old cases.
If a cop patrols black neighborhoods where there are no whites and he shoots only blacks, is he a racist?
Camp Sumter (Andersonville prison)? The 1967 USS Forrestal fire? The Gulf of Tonkin? JFK? LOL
That’s immaterial! LOL
Blacks claim racism at every turn even when there is none. It is quite possible if not probable that they do the same with civil rights issues.
“pistol whipping a child”
“Kinky!” Hedley Lamarr
“Rape, arson, murder and rape.”
WHAT WAS THE PURPOSE OF THE FERGUSON RIOTS ?
All this inflamatory reporting of confrontations between black youths and authority is ruthlessly designed to keeping the black segment of Obama’s political support riled up so that any thought of instituting a richly deserved impeachment proceeding goes nowhere.
This regime and its supporters don’t give a damm if some poor black women or anyone else used all their resources to set up a business in those communities only to have it destroyed through blacks rioting resulting from what democrats created through their propaganda. Such blacks are viewed as eggs that must be broken to make their omlet.
That includes the whites,”hispanics” (note quotes) and asians. They are the other victims who have been maimed, assulted, and murdered by blacks citing those Florida manufactured episodes as their excuse for retribution.
This POTUS (president of the United States) signaled the clever direction to take through his use of “The Bully Pulpit”. And continues to rely on the constitutional office of The US Attorney General to conduct activities and investigations which promote division rather than supress it. Two examples of this used in the Florida case were Holder’s support of the Black Panther’s protest activity and the reward for the demise of the alledged murderer George Zimmerman of the “child”, Treyvon Martin. Which got a wink and a nod
With Ferguson beside sending in 40 DoJ prosecuters which remain to be seen what they come up with.
NOW WE KNOW
(The Washington Post sent in 4 reporters to work over officer Wilson). Holder demanded witholding the devastating release of the video showing the “victim”was a 6 foot 4 inch 295 pound Michael Brown assulting a dimunitive asian store clerk, who was being portrayed as a just turned 18 year old black”kid” innocently walking home to grandma’s house shot in the back by a white police officer, Wilson, just because Brown was black.
That video was released according to press reports by the police chief of Ferguson responding to FOIA (freedom of information act) requests. But had that video been released earlier there was a decent chance there might have not been 4 days of rioting looting, and destruction of property.
Not recognizing why this “racial divide” is being perpetuated has nothing to do with such lofty counter arguments being offered by the political opposition on “equality” or “justice”. Those discussions are viewed with glee and laughed at by the democrats because it first of all lends credability to their lying assertions and diverts focus from the real reason why the those in power are using this political device known as division. It’s to keep them unquestioningly in power.
Democrats are criminals, posing as socialists who use political groupthink to keep their constituency in the dark while they loot the treasury.
Explains why Al Capone ran soup kitchens.
I interpret this to mean that there is an active Grievance industry operating in the area. But in truth, not even very active. The author dishonestly pimps the appearance of a problem by aggregating claims for 10 years, including allegations about officers when they worked elsewhere, then dividing by the current roster of 53 officers. Viola, a complaint “rate” of 13%. Sounds scary, but it ignores TIME. Annualize that by dividing by 10 and you get 1.3% (his source says around 1% is normal). Since the author neglects to describe each claim, we can’t tell how many are completely bogus, or if they even allege serious misconduct. One case is on “appeal” (i.e., the complaint failed, or we would have been told all about it). The only allegation described, that the cops tased a mentally-ill man who had a heart attack, is actually evidence of trying to avoid direct violence. The author is either a spin-doctor, mentally-challenged, or both.
FWIW, Ferguson is a high call volume town and it’s detectives are backed up at least a month on cases. There are some nice areas and some that are straight up ghettofabulous.
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