Posted on 01/29/2015 2:31:36 PM PST by redreno
An attempt to mend the relationship between citizens and police in St. Louis broke into a shouting and shoving match late Wednesday — between citizens and police.
Council members considering a bill to establish a civilian oversight board over police work were holding a public meeting when Jeff Roorda, the business manager of the city’s police union, and a woman appeared to get into a confrontation, an online video shows.
The room erupted into shouts and profanity, as people rose to their feet and crowded in on the two.
The bill was sponsored by Alderman Antonio French, an active participant in demonstrations that erupted in August in the streets of Ferguson, Missouri, after former police officer Darren Wilson, who is white, shot and killed unarmed African-American teen Michael Brown.
A grand jury declined to file charges against Wilson, who resigned from the force.
‘I am Darren Wilson’
The meeting Wednesday was packed. It was meant to seek public input into the creation of a civilian oversight body that can independently investigate police misconduct.
For about an hour, the hearing went on without incident, as residents and police officers got up to speak in favor of or against the need for such a board.
“The alderman listened to their opinion and listened to our opinion. I thought the meeting was going really well,” said Bishop Derrick Robinson, a Ferguson preacher and protest organizer who was at the meeting.
Roorda disagrees. He said protesters shouted police down.
“About 30 or 40 anti-police radicals (were) fomenting violence against the police,” he said.
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Ferguson: You’re 15 minutes are up.
Gee, when did police become non-citizens?
That is what Obummer wants, dehumanizing police.
Obama's "hope and change" at work. As Captain Queeg says to Brody in Jaws, "Not too good is it Chief."
Exactly.
It should be called a CITIZENS Oversight Board, not a
“civilian” oversight board.
Why aren't they ALL in jail? Arson, grand theft and all that are still crimes, aren't they?
The blacks are loosing their fear of whites, who have become sick and are unable to effectively resist the ongoing black coup. Once the loss of fear becomes widespread and it is widely realized just how spiritually sick whites have become there will be a great probability of mass killings.
That is one of the reasons I don’t live in the city anymore.
Way too much firepower in this neck of the woods.
They never stopped.
Government employees are citizens. But in their capacities they are regarded as “police”, “government authorities”, under certain legal protections doing their job that the average citizen doesn’t have.
And you do know that. Nobody ever said they were not citizens. There’d be more of an uproar if they were police and WERE NOT citizens - like foreign private mercenaries.
“About 30 or 40 anti-police radicals (were) fomenting violence against the police,” ....
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Shocked I am!
Every police department needs attentive civilian review.
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