Posted on 08/14/2014 8:30:17 AM PDT by GIdget2004
The St. Louis County Police Department will no longer be involved in the policing Ferguson, Missouri, the suburban community rocked by protests after the death of an unarmed black teenager who was shot by a police officer last week.
Rep. Lacy Clay (D-Mo.), who represents Ferguson, told Bloomberg on Thursday that Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon (D) is expected to announce the decision later today.
"The gov. just called me and he's on his way to St. Louis now to announce he's taking St. Louis County police out of the situation," he said.
The situation, already tenuous after extensive police presence that included rubber bullets, pepper spray and tear gas since Michael Brown's death last week, exploded Wednesday evening after SWAT officers roughed up and arrested two reporters inside a local McDonald's. The journalists were unharmed, but the incident highlighted the town's ramped up police presence, which has been criticized as overly militarized.
It was unclear which authorities, either state police or the Federal Bureau of Investigation, would be taking over in place of St. Louis County Police Department.
According to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the county police was "not aware of reports that they are being relieved of duty."
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Good...now they need a curfew and the national guard deployed.
Hope it gets better. If somethign happens with the federal personnel it will get ugly quick.
Now comes the time to punish the innocent and reward the guilty! Yeah!
HUff post, Boingboing etc.
Don’t think I have ever seen so many left wing sites posted on here since I have been a member.
If people can’t see this is being promoted by the left wing to get their base outraged to get the votes out in Nov then I pity them.
The Dems needed something and they have found another Zimmerman case to use for their personal gain and sadly some on our side are too stupid to see what is really going on.
Act like a gangsta, get treated like a gangsta!
That's why no solid information is being released. That way the rumors can run wild.
After November we'll suddenly discover a videotape of Saint Michael launching himself into the cops window.
Trouble is they are treating EVERYONE like a gangsta.
No Sheriff in the County?
Exactly
The Dems have noting to run on and now use this issue to get their base out.
There are still stupid dumb fools on our side not seeing this, and yet even with the UN chiming in, Black panthers, homosexual groups, Sharpton, Jackson etc etc etc some on our side still fall for their propaganda.
I have never seen so many left wing sites being posted on here before as I have for this shooting.
We will see AD’s being run about how a black man cannot walk down the street without being shot and still some on our side will not wake up.
You think that'll be enough to keep the local cops in line?
looting, rioting, violence, burning down stores.... are called “protests”??
I want them to start burning down TV stations and newspaper offices and see if they still call them “protests”
After nearly a week, Demon Rat governor shows up to shackle the law enforcement.
My guess is he is obeying his master Valerie and her minion Obama.
So County police are no longer patrolling, the Ferguson cops are ‘relieved of duty’, the NG is under the Governor’s command until they are federalized, the FBI (controlled by Eric Holder’s people) is on scene.................this is gonna get interesting...................
the looters and rioters need to be treated like gangsta’s
Day late and a dollar short.
Very good point.
The left now are using this to take attention away form Obama;s failed policies and idiots on our side as well as trolls fall for their propaganda.
Left wing media wants to focus on cops not the thugs, looting, rioting, , and black on black crime.
I see now the homosexual groups have come to the thugs side as well as the other race baiters, media, and even the UN
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