Discussion: Police Groups Demands Punishment for Players Over 'Hands Up' Gesture

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SLPOA is probably still mad at Springsteen, the Dixie Chicks and of course Tommy Smith and John Carlos. Pettiness sadly has a long life.

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Well, at least they haven’t been shot at, YET!!!

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“Police groups” always deny every case of police brutality. To them, it doesn’t exist, cannot exist. They defend police sadism no matter how obvious or disgusting, 100% of the time. So their faux outrage is cynical and irrelevant. They are a special interest group representing out of control thugs. The scum of the scum. Thank god there are a few brave people willing to stand up to them. They are the true defenders of the community.

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Roorda should probably keep his trap shut unless he wants this in the news again: fired for making false statements to cover for another cop

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This is the most organized the police ever get to express their opinions. Outside of their monthly Klan meeting, I mean.

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“Tommie Smith and John Carlos during their medal ceremony at the 1968 Summer Olympics in the Olympic Stadium in Mexico City.” --Beautiful sculpture of this moment on the San Jose State campus–look it up

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Disproved how exactly? There is video with Brown hands up, and a compliant, well rehearsed, well coached cop who was on the block for murdering an unarmed suspect who had assaulted him a minute earlier.

Witnesses split down the middle on this nuanced explanation and exculpatory cross examination for any defense of the dead suspect, was never in play.

This DA is running for higher office as a law and order Reagan Democrat, wait and see.

What is in play are the Federal and FBI examinations of this jurist body and the chain of ‘evidence’ and statements, as applied to greater scrutiny then the yokels in Missouri have been empowered to execute.

A police ombudsman, commenting against the sports franchise, is laughable given the historicity of state and local law enforcement and minority communities.

The gross negligence of the DA and his assistants never presenting the supreme court’s rescinding of laws such as were the mien operable statutes opined, and offered to the jury in support of the ‘trained to do his job’ law enforcement officer, are grounds enough for a Federal probe of this body, and the DA’s office.

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Jeff Roorda is incorrect. It has not been disproven that Brown’s hands were not up. According to the PBS summary of the Grand Jury’s findings at least 16 people saw Brown’s hands up. Roorda’s assertion is contributing to the spin of misinformation.

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They left out this part:
"…and the next time we see black players holding there hands up we will storm the field and shoot them all at least six times.

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The Tamir Rice incident was a display of new police tactics to avoid the “poor optics” of shooting someone who has their hands raised in surrender. Careful study of the issue by police departments revealed that too many officers were giving suspects time to raise their hands before they were shot.

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Nice find. Somebody with a Twitter account, please send the info and link to the players, so they are armed and ready when the press contacts them:

https://twitter.com/tayaustin01
https://twitter.com/kennybritt_18 (no recent activity there)
https://twitter.com/iamsb3 (Stedman Bailey)
https://twitter.com/jaredcook89
https://twitter.com/cg1three (Chris Givens)

They probably have Facebook presence, too, but I don’t use it and didn’t check.

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Where’s Jim Everett when you need him?

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Apparently police officers in St. Louis County aren’t aware that police officers don’t get to demand punishment. That is the job of prosecutors and then it is up to a jury of peers to say if punishment is to be meted out. This is what Darren Wilson forgot when he decided to punish Michael Brown for disrespecting him.

But this:

The SLPOA is calling for the players involved to be disciplined and for the Rams and the NFL to deliver a very public apology. Roorda said he planned to speak to the NFL and the Rams to voice his organization's displeasure tomorrow. He also plans to reach out to other police organizations in St. Louis and around the country to enlist their input on what the appropriate response from law enforcement should be.
The correct response from law enforcement should be to man up.

Not to be issuing warnings:

Roorda warned, "I know that there are those that will say that these players are simply exercising their First Amendment rights. 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."

If the cops think they will successfully punish the Rams by organizing some kind of boycott, I think they are mistaken. I could be wrong, but nobody likes to be threatened and I doubt they will be able to come between rank and file football fans and their team.

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Yikes, he’s spawned!

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“Arrogance and stupidity in one package, how efficient.” Ambassador Londo Molari

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Since there was only one right glove and both Americans wanted to do the gesture, Norman suggested making do with the left glove.

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Portland OR too; under a federal court order.

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This vulgar response by the police spokesman, leaning on and trying to bolster the laughable grand jury ‘exoneration’ of Wilson, just shows how fearful the police and their protectors are of the ultimate, inevitable surfacing of the reality of what happened. The results of the DOJ investigation and the civil suit can’t come fast enough.

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Jane Fonda too.