STL County Police Academy’s New Course: How to Handle Media After You Gun Down an Unarmed Teenager

[kpete]

Sometimes you get a glimpse into a separate subculture that shows you how incredibly removed from the ordinary person’s experience its members are; for example, this new course being offered by the St. Louis County and Municipal Police Academy in the aftermath of the Michael Brown shooting, which promises to teach officers how to handle the media in situations like that, with topics like “Meet the 900-Pound Gorilla,” and “Feeding the Animals.”

This is not a parody, folks. Here’s the PDF: Mediashoot.pdf.


http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/43858_STL_County_Police_Academys_New_Course-_How_to_Handle_the_Media_After_You_Gun_Down_an_Unarmed_Teenager
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2014/09/20/3570116/st-louis-police-academy-promotes-highly-entertaining-course-on-ferguson-and-police-shootings/

[Brigid]

1. Here's an idea:

How about cops stop gunning down unarmed teenagers?

[diabeticman]

2. Please tell me this is a joke.

[FormerOstrich]

4. I had hoped it a sick joke but not....

I searched the academy's courses using course type "Law Enforcement" search term Media.

There it is, disgusting as it may be:

http://www.stlouisco.com/LawandPublicSafety/PoliceAcademy/ContinuingEducation/CourseCatalog

[bettyellen]

5. I thought so too, but this same guy has taught this course in other states with pretty much the same

inflammatory names- except only in Ferguson does the word gorilla get a bullet point.
He's some dickish ex TV anchor. Ron Burgundy should kick his ass.

[rock]

3. I assume we know the color of the teenager they're talking about

n/t

[951-Riverside]

6. K&R. This needs to be on the front page and in case anyone thinks its fake...

Source: https://www.stlouisco.com/Portals/8/docs/Document%20Library/police%20academy/2014/Mediashoot.pdf

[FormerOstrich]

7. I'll kick again

[951-Riverside]

8. Morning kick