Posted on 09/26/2014 1:41:48 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
An attempt to calm tensions in the wake of the fatal shooting of unarmed teenager Michael Brown backfired spectacularly overnight when the police chief of Ferguson, Missouri, marched with protesters calling for his resignation.
Appearing in civilian clothes, Police Chief Thomas Jackson triggered scuffles and a standoff in the St. Louis suburb after joining a march late Thursday outside of his force's headquarters. Hours earlier, he'd released a video apology to the Brown family.
(VIDEO-AT-LINK)
Jackson assured protesters that there would be changes in the wake of Brown's killing. "All those things that are causing mistrust are being evaluated and we are going to be making changes," Jackson said.
However, violence broke out seconds after Jackson tried to join the crowd, which included many protesters who were demanding he step down, along with a handful police officers, according to Alderman Antonio French....
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What a mess...Thanks Obama!
When they chant “No Justice, No Peace”
They are 100% corect, they want neither...
But .. but ... eric said he’d ... oh .... yeah .... never mind
He richly deserves it for apologizing to, and siding with, the supporters of a criminal thug against his own police officer who has not been yet either charged or convicted. Hope he gets more of the same, and I hope his officers all despise him. i know I do.
What a tool.
Should have been the victim of the knock-out game.
When this cracker gets fired, it will be well deserved.
“””in the wake of the fatal shooting of unarmed teenager Michael Brown””””
He was UNARMED.......drink.............
Ray Rice was unarmed when he knocked out his wife.
BINGO!!!
I’d be drunk within one paragraph of a MSM report. It’s been said elsewhere (and I’m stealing it) that his first name is “unarmed teen”. A six foot, almost 300 lb, unarmed teen. Who shortly before his well-deserved shooting, was terrorizing a small Pakistani man.
Or engage in racial/PC pandering
YAWN , who cares
The officer is an idiot. Ferals have no respect for anything...including their selves.
Ferguson Police Chief Thomas Jackson was going way over the speed limit when he passed over the Peter Principle.
I’m guessing he was ordered to try and placate them from someone above him from a position of safety.
There you go, thinking like a white man. Rice had to keep his ho in check. Totally different.
He should have either refused, or done it in such a way as to make it clear that he was under duress.
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