A great post from Discussionist on Ferguson Police Dept.

[avebury]

http://www.discussionist.com/~AmandaMatthews

The Day Ferguson Cops Were Caught in a Bloody Lie

Police in Ferguson, Missouri, once charged a man with destruction of property for bleeding on their uniforms while four of them allegedly beat him.

“On and/or about the 20th day of Sept. 20, 2009 at or near 222 S. Florissant within the corporate limits of Ferguson, Missouri, the above named defendant did then and there unlawfully commit the offense of ‘property damage’ to wit did transfer blood to the uniform,” reads the charge sheet.

The address is the headquarters of the Ferguson Police Department, where a 52-year-old welder named Henry Davis was taken in the predawn hours on that date. He had been arrested for an outstanding warrant that proved to actually be for another man of the same surname, but a different middle name and Social Security number.

“I said, ‘I told you guys it wasn’t me,’” Davis later testified.

He recalled the booking officer saying, “We have a problem.”

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/08/15/the-day-ferguson-cops-were-caught-in-a-bloody-lie.html

[FreakinDJ]

1. Doesn't matter - all Cops are good

Is the official DNC line

Once again selling out the average citizen on the street as they line for Police Union donations and endorsements

The whole country is up in arms over this and I'm glad to see once again their on the WRONG side of the issue

[avebury]

2. The article raises the point that people cannot automatically

assume that the official story that this was a clean cop is a truthful one. They were pretty good at hiding excessive force problems in the past.

[packman]

3. And later all four of those cops

probably applied for early disability retirement due to injuries substained in the beating: sprained wrists, emotional damage, shoulder pains, etc.

Unfuckinbelievable - destruction of property !!!

[PowerToThePeople]

4. Fucking pigs. n/t

[KamaAina]

5. "A great post from Discussionist" is an oxymoron

Like "conservative thinker". Or Rush.

[n2doc]

6. A great post from DU

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025389312