Cop Who Shot Michael Brown Began Career At Racist, Disbanded PD
I have little doubt that this news will help the campaign to raise money for officer Darren Wilson’s defense from bigots and rubes. Frankly, we are not one bit surprised.
The Ferguson police officer who shot unarmed teen Michael Brown had worked at a department that was disbanded by authorities over racial tensions, the Washington Post reports.
Darren Wilson and the other officers at the Jennings, Missouri, police department lost their jobs three years ago. Wilson was a rookie cop at the time.
The newspaper described the old Jennings Police Department as “a mainly white department mired in controversy and notorious for its fraught relationship with residents, especially the African American majority… not an ideal place to learn how to police.”
The city council deemed tensions between officers and black residents so bad that it was necessary to fire everyone and build a new, more credible department from scratch.
Some officers from the disgraced department reapplied for their jobs. Wilson got a job in Ferguson, where he kept a clean disciplinary record and even earned a commendation. But that was all before the events that transpired earlier this month.
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By: dave-dr-gonzo
David Hirsch, a.k.a. Dave "Doctor" Gonzo*, is a renegade record producer, video producer, writer, reformed corporate shill, and still-registered lobbyist for non-one-percenter performing artists and musicians. He lives in a heavily fortified compound in one of Manhattan's less trendy neighborhoods.
* Hirsch is the third person to use the pseudonym, a not-so-veiled tribute to journalist and author Hunter S. Thompson, with the permission of his predecessors Gene Gaudette of American Politics Journal (currently webmaster and chief bottlewasher at Liberaland) and Stephen Meese at Smashmouth Politics.
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HoldenLitgo August 25th, 2014 at 21:43
Equivalent to the video tape of Michael Brown pushing the owner of the convenience store. OK, even score, moving on. Can we charge and arrest the cop now – after taking him off paid leave – for using excessing force and killing the unarmed teenager?
HoldenNLitgo August 25th, 2014 at 21:43
Equivalent to the video tape of Michael Brown pushing the owner of the convenience store. OK, even score, moving on. Can we charge and arrest the cop now – after taking him off paid leave – for using excessing force and killing the unarmed teenager?
BiggerFatterPolitics September 24th, 2014 at 23:18
Cops today are cowards..
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Cops Are Rarely in Danger. Don’t buy the hype
mmdccbslm March 3rd, 2015 at 16:24
the kid was preparing for his first day in college you disgusting, racist terd
Calculatorium May 30th, 2015 at 15:27
Mike Brown had it coming.
Calculatorium May 30th, 2015 at 15:26
Thank you!
Calculatorium May 30th, 2015 at 15:29
Looks like you were wrong, but a liberal can never admit being wrong. Mike Brown deserved what he got.
Calculatorium May 30th, 2015 at 15:29
You were wrong. Mike Brown got exactly what was coming to him.