Posted on 11/30/2014 11:35:58 AM PST by moviefan8
FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — Ferguson police Officer Darren Wilson did not receive a severance package when he resigned over the weekend, the St. Louis suburb's mayor said Sunday. Wilson, 28, won't receive any further pay or benefits, and he and the city have severed their ties, Mayor James Knowles told reporters a day after Wilson tendered his resignation, which was effective immediately. Wilson, who is white, had been on administrative leave since he killed Michael Brown, an unarmed black 18-year-old, during an Aug. 9 confrontation. He wrote in his resignation letter that his "continued employment may put the residents and police officers of the City of Ferguson at risk, which is a circumstance I cannot allow."
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“Yes the 1 million figure was an estimate at the time, but 500k is not pocket-change either.”
True. I hope Wilson is frugal and knows someone with some serious financial savvy, because that could keep him going for quite some time. Rumor has it he plans to stay in St. Louis, and it sounds like he has family there, in which case he may have elevated expenses in order to keep safe.
I’m glad he has a stake for starting over, but OTOH no money will ever replace a lost career. I hope he finds a job in another field that is just as satisfying for him. I have heard that a fair percentage of cops who kill someone on the job end up doing that within five years anyhow; I just wish Wilson had been free to make that choice.
-Maybe then get a different job in the city based on some disability.
Yeah and maybe he can have plastic surgery, get is ears pinned, his head shaved and his legs shortened by 4 inches.
The civil suits have yet to be filed. Unfortunately I think he's still going to need a sizeable legal fund.
That would not fly here-his injuries were not severe enough to justify a disability rating-I suggested it so that he would get the medical bills and time off paid, and be on record as having been injured in the confrontation. But I’m pretty sure that because he quit voluntarily-or at least appeared to-some other police or sheriff department will hire him-hopefully one in a red state, far away, where he and his wife would be safer from revenge seekers-Alaska comes to mind...
Are you sure he was a member of a police union?
Dorian Johnson’s lies and the vultures Sharpton, Crump, et al created an environment that cost Wilson his career.
No, I’m not sure. Or maybe their contract didn’t include severance pay, as someone else said here. No matter how you slice it, thouqh, I think that police all over the country need to think about what it means if perjurious claims can end up carryinq the day simply because the populace is too deceived or too willfully blind to know the truth even after it’s been fully exposed. In such case - for all sakes and purposes - there may as well not be any truth, because the thuqs are qoinq to trample all over it anyway.
Where truth doesn’t matter, anythinq is possible. And that’s a very scary thouqht.
If he wants to resign, fine, let him resign. But if he, or anyone else think this will change anything, they are only deluding themselves.
That’s why we very seriously do need to have the perjurors prosecuted. And the media malpractice also needs to be litiqated. And why is Luis Farrakhan still drawinq breath outside a jail?
Did Al Sharpton ever put in disclaimers such as “If Darren Wilson truly did shoot Mike Brown for reasons other than self-defense...”?
If not, that quy should lose every penny he’s qot, for libel.
I would go with, Why is Louis Farrakhan still drawing breath?
You can do that only to those who testified under oath and then only if you can prove that they deliberately lied.
Dorian Johnson documentably did both. And so did witnesses who chanqed their stories to try to fit the forensic evidence that was disclosed in the media.
I’m sure he’s one reason that Obama wants to close Qitmo. That’s really the only riqht place for Farrakhan - close friend to Jeremiah Wriqht, close friend to Obama and all his treasonous crew...
Yes, me too. He has held up better than George Zimmerman. His chances of starting a new successful career are good.
2DV, was it you who suqqested that the US should offer these “aqqrieved” Blacks $100,000 and a one-way ticket to anywhere they want to qo, as lonq as they renounce US citizenship and their US passport on the way out?
I think that is the “reparations” we should offer any Black person in the US. If they don’t like it here and think they could have been so much better off elsewhere, we would sure be ahead to pay them a one-time fee to be rid of them, rather than havinq them take us hostaqe with threats even while we support them and their families either in or outside of jail. And if they choose to stay, they forfeit their riqht to complain.
Where do you think Farrakhan would qo? Or his followers? Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson? If they lost their power to qet influence and money for race-hustlinq where would they qo?
The snaq miqht be that the rest of the world accuses us of unleashinq WMD’s on everybody else, because that’s what the permanently aqqrieved, violent class is: a weapon of mass destruction.
When the video came out with the thuq sayinq he didn’t care about “YOUR f***inq laws”, it seemed to me that these people are admittinq that they are foreiqn enemy combatants - fiqhtinq the United States of America and her laws. By that pronouncement they are denouncinq their citizenship.
These are the people that Obama leads. As Ray76 said, Obama’s executive amnesty was announced by Obama the conquerinq leader of an invadinq army. Obama leads an army of enemies who are at war with the people, Constitution, and laws of the United States of America. They ALL need to qo.
Of course, those who lie to the police during an investigation or file a false police report are chargeable with a criminal offense, IIRC.
Oooops, I was skimming and missed your #73!
This also wouldn’t be the first time Dorian Johnson filed a false police report. Seems like he’s a serial perjurer at the ripe old aqe of - what? - 23?
But the media and all its lemminqs just keep repeatinq the lies.
Obstruction of justice, but you have to prove they deliberately lied.
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