Discussion: Parma Cop: I Feared New Mayor Would Keep Me From Doing My Job

system1 · April 21, 2015, 1:26pm

Discussion for article #235508

astralfire · April 21, 2015, 2:01pm

Well, either the new Mayor is Darth Vader, or the cop is full of BS.

I wonder which is more likely.

clauscph · April 21, 2015, 2:02pm

“Rather than put my life in danger more than I do now on a daily basis, I decided to walk away,” he told the Post-Dispatch."

Who would have known Parma, Mo. (Pop. 675) was such a dangerous place ? Must be all those guns…

darcy · April 21, 2015, 2:06pm

Beat me to it. Funny line.

commenterperson · April 21, 2015, 2:08pm

It’s ALWAYS “within procedure” to torture suspects and then arrest them, RIGHT!!!

jamit2me · April 21, 2015, 2:09pm

She was going to stop me from doing my job, so I decided to stop myself from doing my job. But I still get my pension right?

clearwater · April 21, 2015, 2:12pm

That jumped out at me, too. Must be a dangerous little burg.

brooklyndweller · April 21, 2015, 2:12pm

These scumbags did Mayor Byrd a favor. No doubt, she’s laughing her ass off behind closed doors.

No longer open season on Black people? Time to go. Glad they did it volutarily.

clearwater · April 21, 2015, 2:13pm

It’s not “torture”, it’s application of the tools of outcome-based compliance.

cincypix · April 21, 2015, 2:14pm

Parma Cop: “I Feared New Mayor Wouldn’t Give Me A Cut of the Action”.

FIFY.

robcat2075 · April 21, 2015, 2:16pm

Can anyone 'splain to me how “two terms” can yield a “total of 37 years”?

raincntry · April 21, 2015, 2:17pm

So, if these cops can’t brutalize black citizens with impunity, they’ll just pick up their toys and go home. Good riddance.

dbutch · April 21, 2015, 2:18pm

Total time in town government, I suspect, with two terms as mayor.

teenlaqueefa · April 21, 2015, 2:18pm

Ahhhhh…

They feared revenge for acts they perpetrated on her family.

Cause that’s what they’d do if the situation were reversed.

raincntry · April 21, 2015, 2:18pm

I can. Apparently Parma has an 18.5 year term for mayor.

ronbyers · April 21, 2015, 2:18pm

I read the last officer lost in the line of duty in Parma was in 1943 or maybe 1948. Crime is very low in the little town.

cliffhendroval · April 21, 2015, 2:18pm

To quote Humphrey Bogart as Philip Marlowe in The Big Sleep:

My, my, my. Such a lot of guns around town and so few brains!

ncsteve · April 21, 2015, 2:19pm

Um, the son of one’s cousin is also one’s cousin. And is usually referred to as simply your cousin.

sonsofares · April 21, 2015, 2:25pm

“I just can’t work at a place where shooting black people is going to be frowned upon,” he later added.

mooster · April 21, 2015, 2:25pm

Well, non-police controlled crime, anyway.