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DOJ asks Ferguson chief to stop police from wearing 'I am Darren Wilson' bracelets on duty
St Louis Post-Dispatch ^ | 9/26/2014

Posted on 09/27/2014 5:41:28 PM PDT by Altura Ct.

The U.S. Department of Justice asked Ferguson Police Chief Thomas Jackson on Friday to prohibit police officers from wearing “I am Darren Wilson” bracelets while on duty in Ferguson.

Christy Lopez, a deputy chief in the Civil Rights Division, told Jackson in a letter that residents had photos of officers, from unknown local agencies, wearing the bracelets.

“We are keenly aware of the importance of individual expression of opinions, even those that some find offensive, insensitive, or harmful,” Lopez said in the letter. However, she continued, “these bracelets reinforce the very ‘us versus them’ mentality that many residents of Ferguson believe exists.”

This is at least the second letter from Lopez to Jackson this week. The first, dated Tuesday, urged Jackson to enforce department policies requiring officers to wear nametags.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; US: Missouri
KEYWORDS: 1moretime; christylopez; darrenwilson; ferguson; missouri; thomasjackson; tyranny
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To: Altura Ct.

Dear Christy:

Take your letter and wipe your butt with it.

Sincerely,

The Ferguson P.D.


61 posted on 09/27/2014 8:38:15 PM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (Politicians and diapers must be changed often for the same reason)
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To: P-Marlowe

“And if your boss tells you to pray to Allah five times during your shift? “


As I said before—I would seek other employment.

Simple.

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62 posted on 09/27/2014 8:39:19 PM PDT by Mears
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To: lee martell
it would be inflamatory to wear this declaration in that city at this time. It would be an unnecessary provocation.

You know there ought to be a GOPe hall of shame and that post should be in it. It's one thing to talk about proper uniforms. But to sit there and say the police need to stop wearing these bracelets to appease the POS rioters cause they might get violent, thats friggin stupid and pathetic. Its no wonder with "thinking" like that America is in the upside down mess it's in.

63 posted on 09/27/2014 8:42:33 PM PDT by Cubs Fan (Where we're headed is worse than mere socialism http://en.metapedia.org/wiki/Anarcho-tyranny)
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To: Brother Cracker

It occurs to me that a slight upward repositioning of the storekeeper’s right knee in either of the top 2 photos (preferably the top left photo) might have put history on a different course...


64 posted on 09/27/2014 8:50:40 PM PDT by castlebrew (Gun Control means hitting where you're aiming!))
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To: Altura Ct.

“The first, dated Tuesday, urged Jackson to enforce department policies requiring officers to wear nametags.”

Perhaps the nametags should all say “Wilson.”


65 posted on 09/27/2014 8:53:39 PM PDT by castlebrew (Gun Control means hitting where you're aiming!))
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To: Mears

I’d tell him to go to Hell.


66 posted on 09/27/2014 9:06:17 PM PDT by P-Marlowe (Saying that ISIL is not Islamic is like saying Obama is not an Idiot.)
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To: Altura Ct.

Thank you.


67 posted on 09/27/2014 9:34:21 PM PDT by Gator113 ( Ted Cruz, Sarah Palin and Mike Lee speak for me, most everyone else is just noise.)
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To: dennisw

The purge of the apparatchik will come.

Sooner or later, it will come


68 posted on 09/27/2014 9:37:25 PM PDT by Rome2000
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra

thank you


69 posted on 09/27/2014 9:46:40 PM PDT by kallisti (political correctness was originally cultural marxism)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Has the DOJ also asked folks to not riot/rob/assault others in the name of Michael Brown?


70 posted on 09/28/2014 4:34:13 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: Farmer Dean
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Eric Holder's way of commanding the gulag prisoners to proclaim "Seig Heil !" to the Kenyan Emperor Obama ...


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71 posted on 09/28/2014 6:15:37 AM PDT by Patton@Bastogne (.)
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To: Altura Ct.

Tell the DOJ to get effed.


72 posted on 09/28/2014 6:24:39 AM PDT by onedoug
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To: Altura Ct.

She shows her prejudicial attitude by slyly calling the bracelets “offensive, insensitive and harmful”

Which is an absolute slander on the officers that are wearing them. She’s basically calling them bigots, isn’t she?

On the other hand, her comments do, so long as there isnt already banning such displays while in uniform, I believe, remove any possibility of the DoJ from forcing through law the Chief of Police from having them removed. Her comments are just way too biased and judgemental.


73 posted on 09/28/2014 3:19:58 PM PDT by tanknetter
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