Tulsa police chief says collection for Ferguson, Mo., officer was desire to 'seek justice'

[NaturalHigh]

Tulsa Police Chief Chuck Jordan stated Tuesday that an attempt to collect money at a police station for the legal fund of an embattled Ferguson, Missouri, police officer was not appropriate but was to “seek justice.”

Jordan told the Tulsa World that the officer, Darren Wilson, had essentially been publicly convicted before an investigation into his shooting of an unarmed teenager had even begun.

The situation could fracture relationships between officers and the public they serve across the country, Jordan said, not just in Ferguson.

Jordan confirmed Monday that he had ordered a donation bucket removed from the police department’s Gilcrease Division station in north Tulsa because it violated city policy. However, he clarified that statement Tuesday, saying his officers’ desire to see justice carried out was not based on “race, guilt or innocence — it is about the rule of law.”


http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/crimewatch/tulsa-police-chief-says-collection-for-ferguson-mo-officer-was/article_04042826-91b5-549a-9a47-fe5d5073d660.html

[hobbit709]

1. Sure it was. And I got a bridge if you believe that.,

[FarPoint]

2. This country is F#*ked up!

This hate is fueled 24/7 by Fox noise....this is our monster.

[ret5hd]

3. And just so everyone understands the context here, north Tulsa is the historically african american

part of town.

It's not that cut and dried now, but it is still majority AA.

[VanGoghRocks]

10. What a tool this Chuck Jordan is, blithely unaware of his own city's bitter

racial past:

The Tulsa Race Riot was a large-scale, racially motivated conflict on May 31 and June 1, 1921, in which whites attacked the black community of Tulsa, Oklahoma. It resulted in the Greenwood District, also known as 'the Black Wall Street' and the wealthiest black community in the United States, being burned to the ground. During the 16 hours of the assault, more than 800 blacks were admitted to local white hospitals with injuries (the black hospital was burned down), and police arrested and detained more than 6,000 black Greenwood residents at three local facilities, in part for their protection. An estimated 10,000 blacks were left homeless, and 35 city blocks composed of 1,256 residences were destroyed by fire. The official count of the dead by the Oklahoma Department of Vital Statistics was 39, but other estimates of black fatalities have been up to about 300.

The events of the riot were long omitted from local and state histories. "The Tulsa race riot of 1921 was rarely mentioned in history books, classrooms or even in private. Blacks and whites alike grew into middle age unaware of what had taken place."[3] With the number of survivors declining, in 1996, the state legislature commissioned a report to establish the historical record of the events, and acknowledge the victims and damages to the black community. Released in 2001, the report included the commission's recommendations for some compensatory actions, most of which were not implemented by the state and city governments. The state has passed legislation to establish some scholarships for descendants of survivors, economic development of Greenwood, and a memorial park to the victims in Tulsa. The latter was dedicated in 2010.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulsa_race_riot

IOW, maybe the worst race riot in terms of casualties and property damage in the country's history.

[justiceischeap]

4. PAID leave and a FREE attorney for Officer Wilson

That is the law and the facts. This officer doesn't need financial help. It's payment for a job well done.

[Sheldon Cooper]

5. Oh fuck him.

What a crock.

[madokie]

6. Hey Chuck

What about the Kid that got gunned down without as much as even being questioned
F* u chuck and the others who gave

[Heidi]

9. Right on

See downthread, madokie.

And good morning!

[tularetom]

7. "Fracture relationships between officers and the public..."

LOL, that ship sailed off the edge of the earth long ago.

[Heidi]

8. Says the boss of a Tulsa cop who recently gunned down his daughter's African-American boysfriend.

http://guardianlv.com/2014/08/married-tulsa-police-officers-arrested-for-murder-of-daughters-boyfriend/

http://www.newson6.com/story/26253533/tpd-chief-alleged-actions-of-one-shouldnt-taint-whole-department