Posted on 12/27/2014 7:48:30 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
FERGUSON, Mo (KMOV.com) – The Ferguson Public Information Officer for the City of Ferguson Police Department has been placed on unpaid leave after referring to the Michael Brown memorial as ‘trash.’
According to the Washington Post, Officer Timothy Zoll, the Ferguson Police Department’s public relations officer said no crime had been reported in connection to the memorial’s destruction early Friday morning. Zoll suggested the department would look at any video of the incident, but did not specify whether the department would investigate after a vehicle allegedly ran over the memorial on Canfield Drive.
“I don’t know that a crime has occurred,” Zoll said to a Washington Post reporter on Friday. He was quoted as saying “But a pile of trash in the middle of the street? That Washington Post is making a call over this?”
The City of Ferguson released a statement Saturday, saying they initiated an internal investigation, and Officer Zoll admitted he misled his superiors when they inquired about the contents of his interview.
Officer Zoll has now been placed on unpaid leave, effective immediately, while the department evaluates disciplinary action.
The City of Ferguson’s statement says the “negative remarks about the memorial do not reflect the feelings of the Ferguson Police Department and are in direct contradiction to the efforts of city officials to relocate the memorial to a more secure location.”
Department officials say they are focused on creating a trusting relationship with the entire community and taking steps to improve the effectiveness of the department.
A spade is a spade.
Where did they get that photo? At the dump?
“A pile of trash in the street.”
Was he talking about Brown or his memorial?
If he has any kind of union representation, he needs to challenge that unpaid leave. Stop babying these hoodlums!
All of the street memorials are trash.
Unsightly piles of plastic junk,beer cans,—and teddy bears,of all things.
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Someone should just dump a load of restaurant garbage on that “memorial”. It would then smell like it looks.
Looks like trash to me but what do I know? I’m just an old white honkey racist.
Somebody should take a healthy dump right on top of it.
| He should have urinated on it and called his doing so "Art." That would be cool, no? |
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Maybe he should have been more sensitive but what an overreaction.
Welll.... it... IS a pile of trash....
So what do they think stray dogs are doing to it in the middle of the night?
Looks like somebody overturned a dumpster.
I fart in the general direction of Michael Brown to make the smell more rosy!
Doesn’t look much different than the actual pile of trash on the curb in the background
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