But I owe you a soda, since you said it first.

I'm just glad I'm not the only one who thinks this...

"Roorda" is SLPOA business manager Jeff Roorda, a former cop who was fired for repeatedly lying and falsifying reports and who now pushes his anti-transparency campaign in Missouri's legislature. You can read the full statement over at KSDK.

http://deadspin.com/st-louis-cops-declare-rams-hands-up-dont-shoot-to-be-1665003269
http://blogs.riverfronttimes.com/dailyrft/2014/09/nixon_stumps_for_rep_jeff_roorda_an_ex-cop_who_says_body_cameras_make_people_less_safe.php?page=2

- Go fuck yourselves!

And I mean that from the bottom of my heart.

K&R!



''If we don't fight now, I guess we'll have to be kicked.....''

Guess what maybe the St.Louis police should have in there training program on when someone puts there hands up they should not shoot first and then ask questions later and just maybe they could and should take a sensitivity training class, since they have failed to serve and protect right along with the bias city prosecutor.

Of how this will make them look in the world veiw ???????

the Rams 5.

Contact info for the NFL Players Association:

https://www.nflplayers.com/About-us/Department--Contacts/

(Click on the Communications tab to reach the department that handles media.)

I just wrote a brief friendly email saying thank to the Rams players for showing their support for the people of Ferguson, and that I fully support their actions.

pasted below:

The union needs to know the public has its back.

I am so fed up I could scream.

Your email is outstanding. I love how you write.

Even more - how you think and speak out. Have a wonderful day.

Should apologize for the behavior of their members. Police officers everywhere are clueless about how fed up people truly are with the bullying and the violence and the shootings perpetrated on citizens and especially on minorities.

not a peaceful protest gesture. Talk about a group that has lost its way.

NFL says it won't discipline Rams players for Ferguson protest

The NFL will not adhere to a request from the St. Louis Police Officer’s Association to discipline St. Louis Rams players who did the “hands up, don’t shoot” pose used by protesters in Ferguson, Mo. during pre-game introductions on Sunday.

“We respect and understand the concerns of all individuals who have expressed views on this tragic situation,” NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy said in a statement to USA TODAY Sports.

The police officer’s association issued a letter late Sunday condemning the players’ actions as “tasteless, offensive and inflammatory” given a grand jury’s decision not to indict Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson in the fatal shooting of black teenager Michael Brown.

Five Rams players raised their hands as they walked out of the tunnel onto the field at the Edwards Jones Dome before Sunday’s game against the Oakland Raiders.

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Tight end Jared Cook said he and his teammates wanted to show solidarity with protesters, because they had not been able to physically join them since the grand jury’s announcement was made last week. Cook said his family members went to Ferguson last week and reported back to him what they saw.

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http://ftw.usatoday.com/2014/12/nfl-rams-ferguson-protest

A statement by the organization called for the players who participated in the act to be disciplined, and demanded the Rams and the NFL apologize.
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This is police intimidation. This isn't just a complaint, they are telling the NFL to take action against the players. The NFL should sue the St. Louis Police Officers Association, or at least file a criminal complaint.

"I know that there are those that will say that these players are simply exercising their First Amendment rights," SLPOA business manager Jeff Roorda said in the statement. "Well, I've got news for people who think that way: Cops have First Amendment rights too, and we plan to exercise ours. I'd remind the NFL and their players that it is not the violent thugs burning down buildings that buy their advertiser's products. It's cops and the good people of St. Louis and other NFL towns that do. Somebody needs to throw a flag on this play. If it's not the NFL and the Rams, then it'll be cops and their supporters."

They are all over this. Thanks to Thom Hartman for pointing that out just now.

because you are not allowed in the field to shoot them?

in order to throw the penalty flag. They might have died in a hail of bullets.

"The St. Louis Police Officers Association is profoundly disappointed with the members of the St. Louis Rams football team who chose to ignore the mountains of evidence released from the St. Louis County Grand Jury this week."



He said "mountains of evidence"

but I want to add another. Those NFL players know all too well that out of uniform and on any American street, they too could be a Michael Brown! So their peaceful show of support had deeper meaning

And yes, fuck the St. Louis Police Officers Association and the murdering, intimidating klansmen it represents.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/early-lead/post/tim-thomas-says-he-skipped-white-house-trip-because-government-has-grown-out-of-control/2012/01/24/gIQAixGINQ_blog.html