Holder Weighs Dismantling the Ferguson Police Dept.

The New York Times ^ | 6 March 15 | JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS and RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑAMARCH

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Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. vowed a firm response on Friday to what he called “appalling” racial misconduct by law enforcement officials in Ferguson, Mo., suggesting he was prepared to seek the dismantling of the police force there if necessary.

“We are prepared to use all the powers that we have, all the power that we have, to ensure that the situation changes there,” Mr. Holder told reporters here after returning from Columbia, S.C., where he appeared with President Obama at a town hall-style meeting at Benedict College. “That means everything from working with them to coming up with an entirely new structure.”

Asked if that included dismantling the police force, Mr. Holder said: “If that’s what’s necessary, we’re prepared to do that.”

His remarks came after two police supervisors in Ferguson resigned after being linked to racist emails turned up by a Justice Department investigation.

The two supervisors, Capt. Rick Henke and Sgt. William Mudd, left the force on Thursday, the city’s information office said Friday. A third employee, Mary Ann Twitty, clerk of the Municipal Court, was fired on Wednesday for her role in the emails.

Officials did not say whether any of the three actually wrote the emails, or whether other employees were involved in writing or forwarding them.

Captain Henke had been with the Ferguson Police Department since 1979, and was acting police chief for several months in 1997 and 1998. Last fall, he led a “night muster” formation of officers from other departments assigned to protect Ferguson’s Police Headquarters.

[MinuteGal]

Whether Holder has the authority or not to disband the Ferguson police force (and I don't think he has) is not the immediate question.

Imagine what the police officers and their families are going through right now. Will a 40 or 50-ish dad with years invested in the service of the Ferguson PD have a job a couple months from now? What about his pension and benefits on which the spouse and kids depend? How are mortgage payments and other bills going to be paid? Would he be able to get another job at his age, in this Obama economy...... and he being "from racist Ferguson"?

Some of you have gone through this gut-wrenching experience at one time or another. It's no fun...in fact, in can cause protracted worry and even illness.....not to mention going into near poverty.

Put yourself in the shoes of these police officers. Holder doesn't care about them and their families one way or the other...as he leads the cushy life in his imported Italian shoes.

The Attorney General is a sadistic Torquemada now holding a sword of Damocles over the heads of these law enforcement men and women for who knows how long.

.....and ISIS is supposed to be the premier torture organization of the day, yeah.

Leni

[M Kehoe]

Good afternoon lovely lady. I hope you are doing better.

We haven't gotten together in a long while.

The 0bama regime has become extra-constitutional. They have zero authority over the Ferguson PD, but the rule of law doesn't seem to matter.

If somehow the regime is successful, the county sheriff is then the highest law in the area/county.

We shall see what happens, or more importantly, what people/municipalities/state government will allow the regime to do.

5.56mm