Posted on 03/08/2015 1:55:02 PM PDT by SkyPilot
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.
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The plan is for the feds to run all police eventually.
A real Fed.gov power-grab if ever there was one
By what authority?
“We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we’ve set. We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.” Barack Hussein Obama, 7/2/2008They don’t call it a Civil Defense force, that would imply we need (or perhaps that we deserve) defense. The official name is National Civilian Community Corps.
I think of it as the NatCCC, or more simply, as the NatCs...
He’ll install Al Sharpton as the new Chief of Police.
2 Lying Federal Attorney lost their Jobs and Judge ask Holder to hire a IC which Holder didn't do
Executive vs. legislative vs. judicial vs. state vs. citizens. Let’s abandon all checks and let King Hussein and his court lord over us. Adios, republic.
What was the wording of the emails? Let us judge for ourselves. Beyond that, this is the opening gambit to establish a civilian national police force that will rival the military, as promised by Obama
I am unaware that the federal govt has any such powers to destruct a local town’s pd.
but if it does, those powers need to be repealed ASAP!
this is a stellar examplar of just how dangerous such powers would be in the hands of transformational or dictatorially-inclined miscreants in federal offices
“By what authority?”
Exactly. Under what authority?
I’m going to use my personal authority to dissolve the attorney general’s office. I’ll let you know how I make out with that.
Let the Blacks run Ferguson. They can join all the other successfully run Black cities.
Wasn’t there such a CIVILIAN force in a leading European country back in the ‘30’s and ‘40’s.
The name was a real tongue twister for the majority of Americans, but even internally it was best known by its initials......G.E.S.T.A.P.O
The left would LOVE to have an American version of the Carabinieri or gendarmerie.
Ping.
I might be way out of line here, but I think it’s time to bear arms against the (federal) government.
Except there isn't any "appalling racial misconduct by law enforcement" and only a stick stirring black racist could see it that way.
I predict MO Democrats get completely wiped out in 2016, and the new Governor/Legislature tell the Feds to pound sand.
Like Detroit.
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