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Police Suspend Officer at Ferguson: 'I Will F****** Kill You' to Protestors
Truth Revolt ^ | 8/21/2014 | Sarah Fisher

Posted on 08/21/2014 5:21:55 AM PDT by markomalley

An officer who was working at the Ferguson protests was caught on camera pointing a semi-automatic weapon at a peaceful demonstrator and saying "I will f****ng kill you." Yesterday, it was announced the police officer was suspended indefinitely.

The incident just before midnight on Tuesday punctuated the 11th straight night of racially charged demonstrations in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson, Missouri, since Brown, an unarmed 18-year-old, was slain by a white police officer.

No one was hurt in the gun-pointing confrontation, but the incident underscored what many have criticized as heavy-handed and unprofessional police tactics that have helped stoke continuing civil unrest.

According to an official account from the St. Louis County Police Department, an unnamed policeman from the neighboring community of St. Ann leveled his weapon at a Ferguson protester "after a verbal exchange," and that a superior county officer, a sergeant, quickly intervened.

According to a statement from the county police department, the sergeant "immediately took action, forcing the officer to lower the weapon and escorting him away from the area."

At one point, he is heard yelling, "I will f****ng kill you, get back, get back," before the sergeant calmly steps in to defuse the situation, orders him to lower the weapon and leads him away from cameras.

"The unified command strongly feel these actions are inappropriate, and not indicative of the officers who have worked daily to keep the peace," the police statement said.

It said the officer in question had been relieved of duty and suspended indefinitely but gave no further details of any investigation or discipline he might face.



TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; US: Missouri
KEYWORDS: corruption; ferguson; govtabuse; michaelbrown; missouri; protesters; protests; tyranny
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To: steve8714

Anybody can wear shower flops. Only Eric Holder’s people can wear Air Jordans.


61 posted on 08/21/2014 8:03:43 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("The man who damns money obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it earned it." --Ayn Rand)
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To: Enlightened1
That guy has no business being a Police Officer. He should be fired immediately.

Of course, we all KNOW that YOU would have handled the situation differently, correct ?

62 posted on 08/21/2014 9:11:07 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: rbg81; yldstrk
Even so, he should have kept his cool.

So EASY to say, sitting in your chair, with AC on, no crowds of angry young gang bangers with guns yelling at you and trying to get close enough to punch you in the face and fracture your skull.

Like all the other BIG TALKERS on here, my guess is that if you were in the officer's shoes, you would have started firing the second the thug said "f%ck you".

63 posted on 08/21/2014 9:15:15 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: rbg81; yldstrk
Even so, he should have kept his cool.

So EASY to say, sitting in your chair, with AC on, no crowds of angry young gang bangers with guns yelling at you and trying to get close enough to punch you in the face and fracture your skull.

Like all the other BIG TALKERS on here, my guess is that if you were in the officer's shoes, you would have started firing the second the thug said "f%ck you".

64 posted on 08/21/2014 9:15:15 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: markomalley
"The unified command strongly feel these actions are inappropriate, and not indicative of the officers who have worked daily to keep the peace," the police statement said.

Unfortunately for Officer Wilson, that video is going to be used to bolster claims of a "pattern of behavior" or "mentality" of the whole Ferguson Police Department.

The officer in this case did his fellow officers a HUGE disservice.

65 posted on 08/21/2014 9:17:32 AM PDT by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: Beagle8U

I tend to agree with all your sentiments and feel sorry for this cop being placed in this situation in a town that was not even his. On top of all that, it was a very dangerous situation aggravated by outsiders and national media. So, what he was placed in the middle of was not his fault.

All that said , we do ask a lot of our cops and one is that you cannot committ a crime! It is a crime to point a gun at another person and say “I will fucking kill you”. This guy will be lucky if losing his job is all that happens to him because he crossed the “legal” line.


66 posted on 08/21/2014 9:51:45 AM PDT by Cen-Tejas (it's the debt bomb stupid!)
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To: UCANSEE2

First of all, I’m not a BIG TALKER. All I said is that the cop should have kept his cool. Especially if he knew he was being recorded.

And BTW — I’ve had people tell me to go F*** myself before, or nearly so, and I’ve always been able to handle it in an appropriate manner.

So calm down Frances.


67 posted on 08/21/2014 10:09:27 AM PDT by rbg81
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To: qwerty1234
Even if it was true, is throwing piss now a death-penalty case with judge, jury and executioner being your local fat cop with an attitude problem?

Did you know that you sound exactly like those idiotic, liberal-minded, red diaper doper babies that are currently on scene in ST. Louis who call themselves JOURNALISTS ?

The PERP in this situation did not get shot. If it were you standing there, being harrassed and cussed at, called a "M****F***N PIG, called a BABY KILLER, it was 86 degrees with 90% humidity and you had on bulletproof vest, police clothes, and were carrying 40 pounds of equipment, and the thugs were throwing water bottles with urine in them , and this THUG pulled a knife and threatened you.... we know what would have happened.

68 posted on 08/21/2014 10:17:04 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: qwerty1234

Why don’t you just google it yourself ?

https://www.google.com/search?q=ferguson+throwing+bottles+of+urine+on+police&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a

I’ll even help.

Of course, you will say “Those articles only show that thugs (like the one with the knife) were throwing URINE at DOZENS OF OTHER COPS, not that specific one.”

You may be right, but IF YOU WERE IN THEIR SHOES, would that really matter to you ?


69 posted on 08/21/2014 10:26:15 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: cripplecreek; Buckeye McFrog
I readily admit that I would make an absolutely terrible cop.

THANK GOD there are actually a couple of posters on this thread WHO ARE WILLING TO BE HONEST.

Some of the other posters on here are talking out their rectums.

70 posted on 08/21/2014 10:29:25 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: Wallace T.

There are many young ‘thugs’ in Ferguson right now who would would love nothing more than to be shot and be a martyr to ‘the cause’.

They don’t want to ‘protest’. They want to ‘push’ the LE until someone reacts.

I hear the Black Panthers and DOJ have offered to pay their funeral expenses and provide college tuition funds to their ‘families’ (other gang members) should they be successful.

I know, ewveryone will think I’m kidding. Am I ?

Have they not already provided tuition funds to the family of Mr. Brown ? Before the evidence has even come out ?


71 posted on 08/21/2014 10:33:08 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: isthisnickcool; qwerty1234
I agree that he should not have been pointing what appears to be a full auto weapon at anyone.

Yeah, because NONE of the other cops ever had to raise their weapons at the crowd. Right ?


72 posted on 08/21/2014 10:37:15 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: Arm_Bears
Hell, he should be fired and then jailed for assault with a deadly weapon.

He didn't 'assault' anyone. I suppose you also believe that the thug with the knife should be given a medal.

73 posted on 08/21/2014 10:40:46 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: rbg81

I agree. But probably hard to keep your cool if someone just threw a bottle of urine on you....


74 posted on 08/21/2014 10:44:10 AM PDT by Mom MD
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To: no-to-illegals

Looks to me like a lot of those ‘paid protesters’ the various ‘race’ groups have hired to get on websites and make posts supporting the rioters and attacking the police, have been let loose on FR.


75 posted on 08/21/2014 10:44:52 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: UCANSEE2

Jim is a fine Man!


76 posted on 08/21/2014 10:47:10 AM PDT by no-to-illegals (Scrutinize our government and Secure the Blessing of Freedom and Justice)
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To: Conscience of a Conservative

If YOU were with a crowd of thugs yelling “KILL A COP, KILL A COP” (which they were), and the thugs were throwing urine on the cops, and you stepped out with a KNIFE in your hands and advanced towards the cops, they told you to “put it down” and you refused, what would have happened ?


77 posted on 08/21/2014 10:52:38 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: qwerty1234; no-to-illegals
I am pretty sure threatening to kill someone is a crime.Yet, you have no problems with the crowd yelling KILL A COP ?
78 posted on 08/21/2014 10:54:27 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: Conscience of a Conservative
only what he did when he became emotional.

What exactly did he do ?

He didn't slug the protester in the face and fracture his skull.

He didn't shoot the thug who wouldn't put down the knife.

How long had the cop been there putting up with all this ? You talk like this happened 'out of the blue' with nothing else going on.

How many LE's were in Ferguson ? How many 'thugs' got shot during the protests/rioting/looting/rape/murder/cell phone thefts ?

79 posted on 08/21/2014 10:59:23 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: School of Rational Thought; markomalley
Under those circumstances that appears to be a lethal threat that would make someone fear for their life.

And the THUG holding the KNIFE and refusing to put it down was NOT a THREAT to the officer he was moving towards ?

You need to go back to 'school'.

80 posted on 08/21/2014 11:01:30 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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