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tenderfoot

(8,430 posts)
Fri Mar 6, 2015, 07:57 PM Mar 2015

Two Ferguson Cops, Court Clerk Lose Jobs Over Racist Emails

D'oh! You Harsh Critics!...

Two Ferguson police officers have reportedly resigned and a court clerk has been fired for sending or receiving racist emails, according to the St. Louis Dispatch. The dismissals come just two days after the Department of Justice released a damning report exposing the Ferguson Police Department as fundamentally racist.

The Dispatch reports that Capt. Rick Henke and Sgt. William Mudd resigned on Thursday; Court Clerk Mary Ann Twitty was fired on Wednesday.

From the Dispatch:

It was not clear whether the three were alleged to be senders or recipients of offensive emails. They could not be reached for comment.

The sources said Henke was associated with an e-mail from 2008 suggesting that President Barack Obama would not be president for very long because a black man can't hold a job. They said Mudd was associated with an e-mail from 2011 suggesting that CrimeStoppers paid a black woman who terminated a pregnancy.



more: http://gawker.com/two-ferguson-cops-court-clerk-lose-jobs-over-racist-em-1689943501
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Two Ferguson Cops, Court Clerk Lose Jobs Over Racist Emails (Original Post) tenderfoot Mar 2015 OP
The entire administration and police department should be shitcanned and arrested on RICO charges alcibiades_mystery Mar 2015 #1
Exactly!!! n/t RKP5637 Mar 2015 #3
Of all the terrible things that have happened including the murder of Michael Brown, people rhett o rick Mar 2015 #5
Time for the police chief to also go IMO, and probably a lot of others too! n/t RKP5637 Mar 2015 #2
Allowed to resign? Generic Other Mar 2015 #4
 

alcibiades_mystery

(36,437 posts)
1. The entire administration and police department should be shitcanned and arrested on RICO charges
Fri Mar 6, 2015, 08:00 PM
Mar 2015

They ran a racist extortion gang for years, robbing their minority citizens, beating them, throwing them in jail. And MURDERING them.

 

rhett o rick

(55,981 posts)
5. Of all the terrible things that have happened including the murder of Michael Brown, people
Fri Mar 6, 2015, 09:56 PM
Mar 2015

are getting fired for emails. How sad.

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