Police union is providing Wilson security
Source: USA Today
Kevin Johnson,
A contingent of St. Louis-area police union members have been providing personal protection for former Ferguson officer Darren Wilson, an unusual security arrangement that will likely continue indefinitely despite the officer's recent resignation from the force, a top union official said Monday.
Jim Pasco, executive director of the national Fraternal Order of Police, said local FOP members have been voluntarily providing Wilson's security that has included their involvement in shuttling the officer among undisclosed locations since his involvement in the Aug. 9 fatal shooting of teenager Michael Brown.
"I don't know how he can live a normal life,'' Pasco said, adding that his "days as a cop are over.''
"We'll work with him as long as necessary,'' he said.
Neil Bruntrager, Wilson's attorney, confirmed that union officers have been assisting his client since the shooting.
FULL story at link.
A demonstrator protesting the shooting death of Michael Brown kneels in the middle of an intersection as he is arrested by police in St. Louis. (Photo: Joshua Lott, Getty Images)
Read more: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/12/01/wilson-security-union/19745877/
SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)hobbit709
(41,694 posts)Xipe Totec
(43,889 posts)I want him to live a long long life.
And every day of his life, I want him to look around in fear; wondering whether this will be his last day on earth.
I wish this for him for the rest of his natural life, which I hope will be very, very long.
NoJusticeNoPeace
(5,018 posts)irisblue
(32,954 posts)n/t
Xipe Totec
(43,889 posts)Dont call me Shirley
(10,998 posts)Hint: if he is such a scaredy, he should never have been allowed to be a cop.
And NEVER AGAIN should he be allowed a position of authority.
AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)Sucks, and they probably don't want to do it, but some things you plug your nose and mush on.
I know Wilson did the worst thing imaginable, but that just makes me all the more impressed that the Union is doing this.
I don't see this as a thin blue line nepotism type thing, but rather a union solidarity thing. Eventually, he won't be their problem anymore, and many sighs of relief will be uttered, I'm sure.
RKP5637
(67,101 posts)protection program or something. ... but then Zimmerman has managed to survive despite making spectacles of himself.
bluestateguy
(44,173 posts)I do not consider this association to be a "union".
And I do not think police should have collecting bargaining privileges.
NoJusticeNoPeace
(5,018 posts)to have the same union protection any government worker should have.
But we have lost our minds with what we have done with police departments.
yeoman6987
(14,449 posts)Partipation. You start with police. Republicans agree with you, but want teachers included. Very slippery slope. Dangerous in fact. I am glad for anyone who has a union police included.
msongs
(67,381 posts)yeoman6987
(14,449 posts)All wonder what happened.
cstanleytech
(26,276 posts)Or atleast he is until he has actually been convicted in a court of law.
That aside I am with the other poster who earlier said they hope he lives a long life because hes going to have to live with what he has done both the good and the bad.
Elmer S. E. Dump
(5,751 posts)cstanleytech
(26,276 posts)I still wish him a long, longgggggggggggggggggggggggggg life though.
LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)What then, is the rational alternative to a police union? Free-market and privatization all the way...?
KinMd
(966 posts)of teachers accused of sex with students, so are they protecting criminals also?
csziggy
(34,134 posts)From: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025897004
Skidmore
Interesting.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/12/01/1348628/-St-Louis-has-two-police-associations-one-for-white-officers-and-one-for-black-officers?detail=facebook
It all makes so much more sense now.
Although it doesn't say so in its name, the St. Louis Police Officers Association, which has staunchly defended Darren Wilson, defamed Mike Brown, and recently called for the suspension of St. Louis Rams football players who showed solidarity with Ferguson, is actually the (White) St. Louis Police Officers Association. African-American officers in St. Louis have their own separate organization that advocates for their needs.
Called the St. Louis Black Police Officers Association until 1975, African-American officers continue to organize separate from their white counterparts in what they now call the St. Louis Ethical Society of Police.
In a strange twist of irony, the head of the African-American police union in St. Louis is a black man named Darren Wilson. In a recent letter he stated:
Our motto is We are the conscious of the St. Louis Police Department. We did not come to this motto lightly. We believe that someone has to be willing to stand up and hold our Police Department to the oaths of service that we all have taken.
In fact, our motto is almost like another type of oath. It is a promise---a promise to you that we will be working every day to be the conscious of the St. Louis Police Department.
99th_Monkey
(19,326 posts)That ^ is the kind of bullshit responses I get when I dare to suggest that
police unions are a problematic embarrassment to the union movement,
because the main thing they provide is a cloak of secrecy and a patina of
quasi-"legitimacy" for criminal police officers.
Because any given officer KNOWS their police union "has their back", it
instills such a powerful sense of entitlement that cops use it as a "license
to murder" and abuse citizens, pretty much at-will.
Everytime a cop shoots an unarmed citizen, they get a PAID vacation for
weeks or months, while the department and the cops union create a "trail
of evidence" that points to the dead victim as being the perp. not the cop.
The cop always walks.
cstanleytech
(26,276 posts)which is protect their members from their employer retaliating against an employee for something like what happens to employees who work for an employer that dont have a union to guard their back like for example the employees for Walmart and Mcdonalds who are at their employers mercy because they dont have a union.
99th_Monkey
(19,326 posts)seriously ... using the fig-leaf of a police "union" to literally entitle cops to
shoot dead anyone they take a fancy to blow away.
Really?
And the "union" should shield criminal behavior of cops. right?
cstanleytech
(26,276 posts)and that the union is in this case protecting a member like unions try to do and you cannot pick and choose when you will or will not support a union if you truly support unions that is.
99th_Monkey
(19,326 posts)Listen, there are many GOOD unions and a few BAD unions, and I absolutely will "pick and choose"
a good union every time, as well I should.. It's idiotic to say that if I support the idea of unions,
then I have to support ALL unions, regardless of how horrible or criminal they are, I still must support
them??
I don't think so. vv
That is like saying if I support the Democratic Party, then I absolutely MUST blindly support every
Democrat in the known universe, regardless of their behavior or positions; which is BS and you know it.
Now if you will excuse me, I have some more picking' and choosing to do.
cstanleytech
(26,276 posts)that are being run better than others because of the decisions the people running them make.
snooper2
(30,151 posts)don't let facts get in the way of a good rant though LOL
99th_Monkey
(19,326 posts)with a PAID vacation and his brand new $450,000 expense account raised by BackStoppers?
I'd like to get "busted" that way anytime.
snooper2
(30,151 posts)Oh,
And if Monkey #53 steals one more thing out of the fridge in the break room that ass monkey won't be swinging in trees anytime soon
Starry Messenger
(32,342 posts)Odin2005
(53,521 posts)Downwinder
(12,869 posts)AKing
(511 posts)RebelOne
(30,947 posts)notadmblnd
(23,720 posts)Kingofalldems
(38,442 posts)I have never seen it but I don't know for sure.
irisblue
(32,954 posts)suffer!
joanbarnes
(1,722 posts)Oktober
(1,488 posts)yeoman6987
(14,449 posts)Our country doesn't use kidnapping typically. He is living a "normal" life because he has not been found to have done anything wrong. I don't agree with that, but that is the reality of the situation.
heaven05
(18,124 posts)'cockles of my heart. not. I hope this POS wilsonthepig NEVER has a peaceful day for the REST of his evil life. He's the fucking demon murderer.
Township75
(3,535 posts)The union I had been with was all in fighting and back stabbing. This wouldn't have happened there so repubs better take notice that not all unions are weak and will roll over.
Lil Missy
(17,865 posts)Kennah
(14,238 posts)olddots
(10,237 posts)Over reaction and fear covered in fascism .
LynneSin
(95,337 posts)If these people are volunteering to help out then that is their own personal time. If taxdollars are being used to provide security then I have an issue.