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Mon Mar 9, 2015, 03:17 PM Mar 2015

Ferguson cop has a sad, says Eric Holder made him cry. [View all]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2983022/I-broke-tears-read-Michael-Brown-report-good-cops-Ferguson-officer-speaks-devastating-probe-branded-department-racist.html

A serving Ferguson police officer revealed that he broke down in tears after he read the Department of Justice report which condemned his force and said: ‘I just close my eyes and wish it wasn’t like that’.

The officer said that his colleagues were ‘good cops’ and that they were ‘hurting’ just like the rest of the community.

In an exclusive interview with Daily Mail Online he said they were all standing behind embattled Ferguson police chief Tom Jackson but were fearful they would lose their jobs if the department was shut down.


More tearful agonizing.

Speaking to Daily Mail Online, the Ferguson police officer said the report misrepresented not just the force, but the city.

'The report is hard to read, but that’s not me,' he said.

‘I am good with the people, the community. We have good officers. Do they write more tickets than some people? Maybe. But they are good officers.

‘This hurts, it really does. When you read it, you read it as a city as a whole. You read it like everybody is like that, but not everybody is like that.’


Breaks my heart. Poor cops.

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Aw poor thing! muntrv Mar 2015 #1
"good officers" means they are good at their jobs, which means racist enforcement and $$ raising nt msongs Mar 2015 #2
WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!! 2naSalit Mar 2015 #3
I wonder if it was pintobean Mar 2015 #4
Some black cops will beat the shit out of black citizens too geomon666 Mar 2015 #5
Have the black FPD cops been accused of that? pintobean Mar 2015 #13
No, they're just willing participants in the illegal, racist racketeering scheme. geek tragedy Mar 2015 #19
6% chance it was a black officer, nt geek tragedy Mar 2015 #6
It's higher than that. pintobean Mar 2015 #11
3/53 were black before, now it's 3/51 geek tragedy Mar 2015 #16
That cop in the linked story pintobean Mar 2015 #17
That cop is giving his name. Not sure what relation that has geek tragedy Mar 2015 #18
There very well may be a few good cops. Sheepshank Mar 2015 #7
this 'good' cop seems to think his department did nothing wrong and that their geek tragedy Mar 2015 #8
Not sure that I ever implied that the weeper was a good cop Sheepshank Mar 2015 #9
There were a few decent ones who objected, per the DOJ report. geek tragedy Mar 2015 #20
I do not feel sorry for this officer Gothmog Mar 2015 #10
‘I just close my eyes and wish it wasn’t like that’. I bet a lot of people wanted to just wish Rex Mar 2015 #12
Cry me a fuckin' river, cop. nt msanthrope Mar 2015 #14
Member of Racist Extortion Gang Feels Sad alcibiades_mystery Mar 2015 #15
The cop who said this is anonymous? Trillo Mar 2015 #21
More likely he doesn't want it on his resume that he approves of the racist shakedown scheme geek tragedy Mar 2015 #22
Go to hell. The Ferguson PD needs some more morale suppressants. Dawson Leery Mar 2015 #23
Boo boo kitty. hifiguy Mar 2015 #24
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