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Police officer resigns, another is fired after Ferguson incidents[W:76]

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(Reuters) - A police officer has resigned after pointing a rifle at protesters during racially charged demonstrations in Ferguson, Missouri, and another has been fired for inappropriate social media posts stemming from the two weeks of civil unrest, officials said on Friday.

Officer Go **** Yourself has been forced to resign, and another officer who posted on social media sites that the Ferguson protesters should all be put down like rabid dogs has been fired.

Both decisions were good decisions. Police officers do not own the community. They work FOR the community, and the community is the boss, not them. I know that tensions have been running high in Ferguson, but if you threaten to kill people, then you do not deserve to wear a badge under ANY circumstances. End of discussion....... Or is it?

Article is here.
 
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Yep, any displays of humanity while wearing a badge makes you a worthless waste of oxygen. Maybe if we're lucky, they'll do the honorable thing, right? When was the last time someone expressed sadness over a cop losing his/her life or acknowledging a job well done? Actually, getting away from law enforcement is probably the best thing to happen to them. I swear they should all just walk off the job since almost nobody gives a **** about what happens to them anyway.
 
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Yep, any displays of humanity while wearing a badge makes you a worthless waste of oxygen. Maybe if we're lucky, they'll do the honorable thing, right? When was the last time someone expressed sadness over a cop losing his/her life or acknowledging a job well done? Actually, getting away from law enforcement is probably the best thing to happen to them. I swear they should all just walk off the job since almost nobody gives a **** about what happens to them anyway.

Emotional hyperbole about imagined things that no one has said is kinda sad and pathetic...
 
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Officer Go **** Yourself has been forced to resign, and another officer who posted on social media sites that the Ferguson protesters should all be put down like rabid dogs has been fired.

Both decisions were good decisions. Police officers do not own the community. They work FOR the community, and the community is the boss, not them. I know that tensions have been running high in Ferguson, but if you threaten to kill people, then you do not deserve to wear a badge under ANY circumstances. End of discussion....... Or is it?

Article is here.

I don't believe the officer who said inappropriate language and threats in the heat of the moment was given proportionate discipline. He should've been Suspended without pay, and maybe lose a pay grade, but not fired after 20 yrs of service, unless this was a 2nd offense?

The other cop who posted the protesters should be put down like rabid dogs was also over punished. Again, unless he's been caught doing this kind of thing before?
 
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Emotional hyperbole about imagined things that no one has said is kinda sad and pathetic...

If you've seen some outpouring of respect or concern for or even just an attempt at understanding the people behind the badge, you've been hanging out where I haven't. Maybe it's the uniform that leads people to believe cops are no longer to be regarded as human and should be discarded with no more concern than one would have over a defective dishwasher.
 
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Yep, any displays of humanity while wearing a badge makes you a worthless waste of oxygen.
Saying that protestors should be put down like dogs is not an expression of humanity. Monsters say that sort of thing.

Maybe if we're lucky, they'll do the honorable thing, right? When was the last time someone expressed sadness over a cop losing his/her life or acknowledging a job well done?
Only every single time an officer is killed in the line of duty.

Actually, getting away from law enforcement is probably the best thing to happen to them. I swear they should all just walk off the job since almost nobody gives a **** about what happens to them anyway.

What planet do you live on?
 
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Saying that protestors should be put down like dogs is not an expression of humanity. Monsters say that sort of thing.


Only every single time an officer is killed in the line of duty.

How annoying that must be to people who know better than to care for a piece of machinery. At least try not to begrudge the mourners too much. They're probably family and didn't know they shouldn't give a **** any more.
 
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OK I was gone from the board for 2 weeks and thus I haven't seen all the posts regarding Ferguson. However, as far as I can tell, in all the posts on DP about all the things that happened in Ferguson no one has posted even a word about the officers who went home after their duty shift and baked batches of cookies and handed them out to protesters the next day.
 
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Yep, any displays of humanity while wearing a badge makes you a worthless waste of oxygen. Maybe if we're lucky, they'll do the honorable thing, right? When was the last time someone expressed sadness over a cop losing his/her life or acknowledging a job well done? Actually, getting away from law enforcement is probably the best thing to happen to them. I swear they should all just walk off the job since almost nobody gives a **** about what happens to them anyway.

They were treating the people they are supposed to serve and protect as worthless wastes of oxygen. That's unacceptable in people who have vested in them the power to destroy lives.
 
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How annoying that must be to people who know better than to care for a piece of machinery. At least try not to begrudge the mourners too much. They're probably family and didn't know they shouldn't give a **** any more.

Is there some other thread in which this post makes sense?
 
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They were treating the people they are supposed to serve and protect as worthless wastes of oxygen. That's unacceptable in people who have vested in them the power to destroy lives.

I hear ya. Unless a cop is "serving" you like a waiter or a prostitute they're better off put down themselves, amirite?
 
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Is there some other thread in which this post makes sense?

It makes total sense in every cop hating thread here. I'm just letting you all know that I get it.
 
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Police officers have extraordinary powers that can be easily abused, and if an officer makes statements on the internet like the one did, then he should not be on the force. The one that said F You should have been disciplined and a review done to see if he could stay on the force with counseling to help him deal with the pressures that the riots put on him. Maybe that was done, and he chose to maintain his position. I don't know.

However, many of the officers in that town seem to me to be good public servants that did their job and wanted to help not harm. Hell, even some the black citizens took up positions to defend stores from the looters and confronted them with the same language and disdain as the officer that said F You. Videos of them doing so are all over the internet, yet we harp on one guy that lost his temper, was obviously scared and used a politically incorrect term. Again, I don't know what happened with that guy. Maybe he maintained that attitude, and maybe even has had that attitude for years - if so he needed to go, but if not, this was too harsh to ruin a career over.
 
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I hear ya. Unless a cop is "serving" you like a waiter or a prostitute they're better off put down themselves, amirite?

Did I say that? How about answering the substance of my comment. And serve and protect is the motto of at least one big city PD is it not?
 
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I don't believe the officer who said inappropriate language and threats in the heat of the moment was given proportionate discipline. He should've been Suspended without pay, and maybe lose a pay grade, but not fired after 20 yrs of service, unless this was a 2nd offense?

The other cop who posted the protesters should be put down like rabid dogs was also over punished. Again, unless he's been caught doing this kind of thing before?
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Actually, he had disciplinary action taken against him 3 times prior to this.
 
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Did I say that?

Is there something I said you disagree with? Surely you wouldn't suggest that cops be permitted to get frustrated, angry, hurt, saddened, stressed, etc. The ones who do need to be scrapped with no more care or concern than a broken down car.

How about answering the substance of my comment. And serve and protect is the motto of at least one big city PD is it not?

I get it. They're there for your comfort and the ones who aren't committed to that just suck.
 
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Is there something I said you disagree with? Surely you wouldn't suggest that cops be permitted to get frustrated, angry, hurt, saddened, stressed, etc. The ones who do need to be scrapped with no more care or concern than a broken down car.



I get it. They're there for your comfort and the ones who aren't committed to that just suck.

Officer Go **** Yourself had been disciplined 3 times previously. And it's not that they just kicked him to the curb. They gave him the option of resigning so he wouldn't lose his pension.
 
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I hear ya. Unless a cop is "serving" you like a waiter or a prostitute they're better off put down themselves, amirite?

What the **** is wrong with you? A cop expresses a desire to murder people, and you're jumping all over people for not worshiping him as a hero. What's it like living in a universe that's black and white?
 
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Officer Go **** Yourself had been disciplined 3 times previously. And it's not that they just kicked him to the curb. They gave him the option of resigning so he wouldn't lose his pension.

Well that's ridiculous. Unless he and his family are stripped of all their worldly possessions and he's forced to accept the only means of escape from a dishonorable life so clearly useless and pointless there is no justice.
 
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Well that's ridiculous. Unless he and his family are stripped of all their worldly possessions and he's forced to accept the only means of escape from a dishonorable life so clearly useless and pointless there is no justice.

Really? That's clearly not what happened here.
 
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Really? That's clearly not what happened here.

I know. That's what I'm saying. There is no justice. If there was, that guys life would be nothing but one long string of misery from here on out.
 
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I know. That's what I'm saying. There is no justice.
If there was, that guys life would be nothing but one long string of misery from here on out.
I assure you that the cop that accidentally killed his police dog will feel that way--though he got pounded by righties for reasons I still can't figure.

I think the public is tired of these guys getting full pensions and compounded COLA to be paid by the very people he terrorized.

Lord knows how many times I've had to hear I don't deserve my pension and I'm in good standing with the law . :confused:
 
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I assure you that the cop that accidentally killed his police dog will feel that way--though he got pounded by righties for reasons I still can't figure.

Do tell me what all us "righties" are like and why it's just inappropriate for us to give a damn about what happens to animals. I'm all ears.

I think the public is tired of these guys getting full pensions and compounded COLA to be paid by the very people he terrorized.

Lord knows how many times I've had to hear I don't deserve my pension and I'm in good standing with the law . :confused:

I know. We'd be better of without all "these guys", wouldn't we? Although, can you really refer to automatons as "guys"?
 
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Officer Go **** Yourself has been forced to resign, and another officer who posted on social media sites that the Ferguson protesters should all be put down like rabid dogs has been fired.

Both decisions were good decisions. Police officers do not own the community. They work FOR the community, and the community is the boss, not them. I know that tensions have been running high in Ferguson, but if you threaten to kill people, then you do not deserve to wear a badge under ANY circumstances. End of discussion....... Or is it?

Article is here.

I agree.

I know what happened for everyone: tempers boiled over and everyone's a human. but officers on duty (especially) have to satisfy the demands of their station - it's written plainly in their contract and rulebooks.
 
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I agree.

I know what happened for everyone: tempers boiled over and everyone's a human. but officers on duty (especially) have to satisfy the demands of their station - it's written plainly in their contract and rulebooks.

Talking about "not deserving" of a badge. I sincerely have been wondering lately why anyone would even want to wear a badge. Most of the people they're "serving" and "protecting" wouldn't give one tiny rats ass if someone blew them away and certainly wouldn't do anything to prevent it even if they could.
 
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