Ferguson cop says life is ‘ruined’ after pointing AR-15 at journalists and saying, ‘I’m going to f*c

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67. Former Ferguson-area cop says protests have 'literally ruined his life'

Former Ferguson-area cop says protests have 'literally ruined his life'
By Thandisizwe Chimurenga
Friday Dec 18, 2015  3:36 PM CST



FERGUSON, MO - AUGUST 19: St. Ann, Missouri police officer Lt. Ray Albers points an assault rifle at a protester of the death of teenager Michael Brown August 19, 2014 in Ferguson, Missouri. Albers, who was forced to lower his weapon and escorted from th

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All these cameras are so big and my automatic rifle is so small.


I’ll be filing this one under “Boo Freaking Hoo.” As Daily Kos readers are aware, the August 2014 murder of Mike Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, touched off days of protests in the area. The response to those protests was heavily militarized and over-the-top. During one protest, St. Ann (Missouri) Police Lieutenant Ray Albers was seen walking with/through the crowd with his automatic rifle “raised and pointed” at protestors. He tells a group of media workers present in the crowd, “I will f------ kill you!” When the person recording him asks Albers his name, Albers’ reply is “Go f--- yourself. Check the video below.

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Albers was suspended about a week or so after the video went viral and he eventually resigned from the police department. That should have been the end of it. Now, the Huffington Post reports Albers wants his job in policing back.

Albers resigned but was allowed to keep his license that allows him to be a police officer. On December 16, Missouri’s Administrative Hearing Commission met to decide if they would suspend or permanently revoke Albers license. That’s when the violins started playing: Albers says his life has been ruined since the Ferguson protests.

More:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/12/18/1461493/-Former-Ferguson-area-cop-says-protests-have-literally-ruined-his-life

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Missouri Cop Fired for Pointing Weapon at Protesters Now Claims Life is “Ruined”

carlos December 18, 2015

The Missouri cop who pointed an assault rifle at demonstrators during the 2014 Ferguson protests, telling them “I will fucking kill you,” only to end up fired after the video went viral, is now whining that his life is “ruined.” But only because he is at risk of losing his law enforcement license.

Not because he is facing any actual criminal charges, which would be the case had he not been granted Blue Privilege.
Ray Albers, who was a lieutenant for the St. Ann Police Department, tried to defend his actions Wednesday during a state Department of Public Safety administrative hearing by claiming he did not point his weapon at anybody in particular.

He was only waving it around in the interest of public safety, he argued. And for his own safety, of course. “I never pointed my rifle at anyone,” Albers testified, according to the Huffington Post. “I was using that scope with the laser to find that individual with a weapon. Like I said, those people came towards me.”

More:
https://photographyisnotacrime.com/2015/12/missouri-cop-fired-for-pointing-weapon-at-protesters-claims-his-life-is-ruined/