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Ferguson police officer who helped detain a journalist in a McDonald's earlier this month is in the midst of a civil rights lawsuit because he allegedly hog-tied a 12-year-old boy who was checking the mail at the end of his driveway.
Based on the article, the incident didn't even happen with the Ferguson police. The officer was working for another town at the time.
Wilson must be squeaky clean. The media is so desperate we are getting reports of his mom, who died more than a decade ago, his previous dept, where he had a clean record, and his fellow officers' records from their previous employments.
All of that is apparently considered relevant to the shooting. But the robbery committed by Brown 10 minutes earlier is completely irrelevant and a character assignation
Based on the article, the incident didn't even happen with the Ferguson police. The officer was working for another town at the time.
Wilson must be squeaky clean. The media is so desperate we are getting reports of his mom, who died more than a decade ago, his previous dept, where he had a clean record, and his fellow officers' records from their previous employments.
All of that is apparently considered relevant to the shooting. But the robbery committed by Brown 10 minutes earlier is completely irrelevant and a character assignation
As Wilson did not know anything about any robbery, fact remains that he had no reason to confront Brown.
This is not the departments fault really since the officer did this before joining.
I would question hiring an officer with this kind of history and what kind of steps were taken for re-training and/or punishment. I believe that people can do better as long as they take responsibility for their actions. If he did not, or they didn't care, then it can be an indicator of a trend in hiring officers with abusive pasts. Which is fine if they are rehabilitated...but it doesn't seem like in actions recently.
Based on the article, the incident didn't even happen with the Ferguson police. The officer was working for another town at the time.
Wilson must be squeaky clean. The media is so desperate we are getting reports of his mom, who died more than a decade ago, his previous dept, where he had a clean record, and his fellow officers' records from their previous employments.
All of that is apparently considered relevant to the shooting. But the robbery committed by Brown 10 minutes earlier is completely irrelevant and a character assignation
Yeah, Wilson worked for a police department that was disbanded before working for FPD
The immediate explanation is that the bulk of the cases arise from car stops. The ArchCity Defenders report notes: “Whites comprise 29% of the population of Ferguson but just 12.7% of vehicle stops. After being stopped in Ferguson, blacks are almost twice as likely as whites to be searched (12.1% vs. 6.9%) and twice as likely to be arrested (10.4% vs. 5.2%).”
Lest anyone contend that blacks inherently merit greater police attention than whites, the report offers another statistic.
“Searches of black individuals result in discovery of contraband only 21.7% of the time, while similar searches of whites produce contraband 34.0% of the time.”
That would suggest both that whites were more likely to be stopped when there was actual probable cause and that blacks were more likely to be stopped when there was not. And the antagonism sure to be generated by such racial disparities was magnified by the sheer number of cases.
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