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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it would seem so, thanks
“We cannot continue to rely only 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 Obama
And I then will fully expect our real military to reduce these vermin and their commander to rubble. Rubble covered in pig sh... just for that commander.
You listening, Dorkbama?
Put that in your mosque and smoke it.
yes but remember O’s been replacing dozens and dozens of our top-ranked (and most experienced, mostly) military leaders....
with his Transformational newbie syncophats
see this new report, just for instance:
God bless you sir. You remember America when she was better, and her people elected real leaders. Today, we have Obama, and it sometimes seems to me that God has passed judgement on America.
What makes him think he the authority to do this?
Methinks he is spouting off out at the mouth, swaggering around, acting like a childish punk, making stupid remarks that his butt can’t fulfill.
Not a surprise....he and the DiC want to dismantle anything and everything......
let the pogroms continue
These a- holes couldnt tell the truth if their very lives depended upon it.
Liberals never worry about legal restraints on what they want to do, such as jurisdictional and constitutional limitations. They’re essentially fascists at heart.
He has no such power or authority.
He’s going to have to call in Matt Dillon to do that.....
I happen to think your post (32) is the most common sense, legal, and least aggressive solution to the whole thing. If the non black cops abandoned Ferguson, how could Holder or Sharpton complain?
That’s when the fragging starts
Just talk. I doubt he can disband a state’s cities police force.
They would not have to bar me. I would not be anywhere near the place. It is only the self hating Whites that want to attend.
correct he has been replacing Generals and top officers in the military with now homosexuals, women and others who agree with his politics.
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