There was a young black woman on CNN just now,

[sufrommich]

she had a run in with the same cop (Wilson) a month before the shooting.Someone maced her and she went into the convenience store to get some water for her eyes,the clerk told her to use milk instead of water and gave her some milk and she started pouring it into her eyes.Wilson walked into the store and asked her "what the fuck she was doing" and when she tried to explain,he told her to "shut the fuck up".He followed her out to her car,took the milk away,made her exit the car and sit on the sidewalk while he ran her name through the computer then let her go. She said she knew which cop it was as soon as she heard about the shooting because he was known to be abusive.

I can't even imagine the rage I'd feel if that happened to my kid.

[KamaAina]

1. You mean black, right?

Or was she turned away from the camera?

[sufrommich]

2. lol, I thought I caught it before anyone noticed. nt

[uponit7771]

3. the same officer has been named as harrasing kids in the area many times

[frylock]

4. but but but there is no record of disciplinary action against the nice officer

[sabrina 1]

5. No RECORD. Which means exactly that, it doesn't mean he has not been abusive. Good that witnesses

are coming forward report on their experiences with him.

[easychoice]

14. I can't wait to see who steps up now that they have protection.

I am pretty sure all the "reports" won't disappear this time.

Grand Jury the whole mess and throw them all in the can. Judges,prosecutors and cops.One and all..

[AgingAmerican]

32. The department policy

...was for any non fatal incident reports to be written by the arresting officer. So there are no records of anything except police killings, which they couldn't gloss over because the media knew about them. If they could have swept those under the rug too, I am sure they would have gladly done so.

[sabrina 1]

35. I just read that somewhere, they get to write their own reports. So basically this 'he had no record

of violence' is meaningless. Not really surprised to tell you the truth.

[tkmorris]

6. That's an indication the whole department is corrupt

You can't claim it's a "bad apple" when you keep giving the apple permission to be bad.

[frylock]

7. i think the entire force needs to be shitcanned and rebuilt from the ground up

[GliderGuider]

8. Agreed. nt

[DinahMoeHum]

11. Yeah. At this point, the whole apple tree is poisoned. . .

. . .and needs to be uprooted - and a new tree planted.

The "bad apple" excuse doesn't cut it anymore.

[AgingAmerican]

33. ...

[Stonepounder]

40. I would go one step further.

Disband the police department and contract with either the Highway Patrol, or another Municipality to provide police coverage to Furgeson. There is no way that the current force can every rebuild the trust of the community.

[jwirr]

13. I wonder if there is enough proof to show a coverup? I think that is illegal.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

17. We all knew THAT the minute the Chief ran to FOX "News".

[laundry_queen]

25. Exactly. nt

[etherealtruth]

31. without doubt

[REP]

34. One bad apple spoils the whole barrel is how that saying goes.

[calimary]

36. Well, look at the police chief. THAT'S what's leading the department.

No wonder they're so fucked up.

[avebury]

10. We may never know because it was found out a few

years ago that in cases of excessive force the officer wrote up his own report, showed it to his supervisor and it then went into the police report. They were not putting them in the officer's personnel file.

[Chasstev365]

15. Ding Ding Ding!

We have a winner! That is EXACTLY how they will defend the cop in question!

[PatSeg]

20. Yeah

That's what the Chief of Police said just a short while ago. Such a quiet guy. I wonder how long this police chief will keep his job. He looks so uncomfortable during the press conferences - all that lying is really a bitch.

[sunnystarr]

24. and the chief said on TV how quiet and gentle he is .... (nt)

[gollygee]

30. Yep. Probably because stuff like this isn't seen as a problem in the police force

and therefore doesn't lead to discipline.

Or the African American community in Ferguson is SO disenfranchised that the police department pays no attention to what is happening to them at all.

Or both.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

38. Srsly. I'm for dumping the whole force and replacing

Like you said.

[AverageJoe90]

9. Wilson should have been fired a long time ago. Fuck that troglodyte. nt

[Orrex]

12. She's lucky to have escaped with her life (nt)

[sakabatou]

16. +1

[svpadgham]

37. Guess he didn't feel like doing paperwork that day.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

39. +++!! n/t

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

18. Do we have a photo of the cop?

Most people who have run-ins with cops never get their names. It takes nerve to ask a cop who's harassing you for his name and badge number. If Wilson's picture gets into the news and if he's been generally abusive we'll probably hear of more cases.

[sufrommich]

19. She said he was wearing his name tag and she purposely

committed his name to memory because she didn't want to forget who he was.

[loyalsister]

21. Rage and fear

I would think that she might have been left with a despairingly, angry, gratitude in knowing that the odds are that the situation would have been more dire if she was a man.

White people (including myself) have no idea what it is like to know that their husbands, sons, fathers, etc are living with risk because of what they look like.

The fact that I can't makes me respect the anger and demand for justice, though.

[countryjake]

22. Thanks for telling that...I saw that same interview.

K&R!

[JEB]

23. That cop should be trying to scrape up bail,

not hiding out and collecting wages.

[laundry_queen]

26. +1 nt

[gordianot]

27. If he ran her name there is a record, the "internets" will get you.

How about some journalist asking for a FOI release so the Police Chief can have another news release.

[Stellar]

28. Wilson..that couldn't be the mild mannered cop the chief

mentioned Friday morning, could it.

[grahamhgreen]

29. Someone Maced her?

[VA_Jill]

41. PICTURE PLEASE!

We need to see what this jerk looks like.

[riseabove]

42. She should have made a formal complaint... too many people let the cops get away without

making a complaint. He has no complaints on his file, had she made one we would all already know this cop was a creep, and we could try him in the news, like they are trying to do to Mike.