Ferguson clerk fired over racist emails also accused of fixing traffic tickets

[Eugene]

Source: The Guardian

Ferguson clerk fired over racist emails also accused of fixing traffic tickets

Jon Swaine in New York
Friday 6 March 2015 18.05 GMT

A senior court official in Ferguson, Missouri, who was fired by the city over racist emails, is also accused of fixing traffic tickets for colleagues.

Mary Ann Twitty, Ferguson’s influential court clerk, has been identified as the first city official to lose her job as a result of the Department of Justice’s scathing report on the St Louis suburb’s criminal justice system that was published this week.

Twitty, 60, was fired in connection with racist emails that were detailed in the report, according to the New York Times. “This type of behaviour will not be tolerated in the Ferguson police department or in any department in the city of Ferguson,” Mayor James Knowles III told a press conference on Thursday.

The Justice Department’s report also identified Ferguson’s court clerk as the most prolific of a group of white officials who were caught fixing citations and fines incurred by colleagues and associates. City spokespeople did not respond to requests to confirm the clerk was Twitty. Calls to a number listed for Twitty were not answered on Friday.

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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/mar/06/ferguson-court-clerk-racist-emails-fixing-traffic-tickets

[shanti]

1. She lives up to her name n/t

[Wellstone ruled]

2. Sounds like a typical

Red State Amurika thingee. This is more common than one thinks.

[haele]

3. Wonder if she was witness #40.

The one who went down to the neighborhood to see how them n**** lived to "expand her worldview" and saw the Brown Shooting?

Haele

[1StrongBlackMan]

4. So ... I wonder if her response will be ...

A) Yes. I knew fixing tickets is wrong; but, I did it anyway. I accept responsibility, and the consequences, for my actions

B) Yeah. I did it; but, everyone else did other stuff!

C) None of this would'a happen if not for F' ing federal government interfering

D) None of this stuff would'a happen if those F' ing Black people acted civilized.

[11 Bravo]

5. I'm guessing she never went up upside a black kid's head ...

or busted out a black motorist's tail light prior to writing him up, or maced a black guy "reaching toward his waistband".
This is just one ignorant racist old woman, and if Ferguson thinks that shit-canning her is going to make everything copacetic, I pray that they're wrong.

[kimbutgar]

6. Who wants to bet she still will get her retirement pay?

The rascists always protect their own until they get caught