Posted on 03/06/2015 6:28:28 PM PST by Steelfish
Holder Says He’s ‘Prepared’ To Dismantle Ferguson Police Department If Necessary
By Katie Zezima March 6
Attorney General Eric Holder said Friday the Department of Justice is ready to take any and all steps that are needed to reform the Ferguson, Mo., police department, including the potential dismantling of the force.
Speaking to reporters at Andrews Air Force Base after a trip to South Carolina with President Obama, Holder said he was stunned by what the investigation uncovered, and will go to all necessary lengths to address racial bias and other systemic issues within the force. A Department of Justice report released Wednesday showed the police department demonstrated a pattern of racial bias and committed constitutional violations.
"We are prepared to use all the powers that we have, all the power that we have, to ensure that the situation changes there. That means everything from working with them to coming up with an entirely new structure," Holder said. When asked if that included dismantling the department, he said, "If that's what's necessary, we're prepared to do that."
Holder said he was "shocked" -- surprised was "not a strong enough word," he said -- by the number of people who were mistreated by the department, and the breadth of the abuses.
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Congress with Boehner and O’Connell have been self eunuched.
Heck, he has his own Black Panthers as the praetorian guard.
Making sure IsIS and the PLO who protested can fill in the security vacuum just like in Iraq.
What a blowhard.
He can say all kinds of absurd things, knowing that the media and useful idiots will lap it all up. But he knows, and so do other “elites”, they there is no case nor reason for anything to be done.
Whoever thought that after fighting a war for independence we here in America would end up with a prince john and a sheriff of nottingham?
“This most egregious intrusion by the federal government is being ignored because five decades of liberal public school indoctrination and Marxist ideology at the college level have terminated the understanding of and respect for liberty and our constitution.”
No kidding.
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
Why is the story dated 2013?
Do enough Americans care?
Funny! Ferguson without a police department!!
This story is unreal.
Have you been to the DMV where I live??? Run by the state troopers with ‘wratchet wemmenz’ who yell at people. Yeah, those state troopers will be ‘linin’ up’. /s
And that, ladies and gentlemen is how the National Police / Obama's Private Security Force began.....................
There is a Deputy AG that could take over the office until a new AG is selected. Holder should be thrown out on his butt...NOW.
Make it so!
Dismantle the Department!
Why should 50 White Cops patrol an African Township?
Get them the hell outa there!
Let the Africans and their government take control of that Township for cryin’ out loud!
Feds have no authority to dismantle a state police agency.
You have no authority to do so!
I agree with Holder on this one. This sounds very serious. What were the police doing Eric? Burning down stores? Looting? Throwing Molotov Cocktails? I mean if they were into kind of stuff they really ought to be prosecuted.
and just where does the DOJ get the authority to change or dismantle a municipal police department??
> Black chicks do this ALL the time where I live. They ssssaaaaaashay and taunt and dare. Have to wait forever for them to move.
Install a megaphone and announce local job listings. They’ll move out of your way pronto.
Are you serious?
All I can think of, is what could they possibly have been doing to be talked about so harshly?
Do we know what they said? Did?
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