Don’t forget the DA giving the grand jurors the wrong law on killing as a 4th Amendment seizure.
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There’s something purely American about Business Manager Roorda stepping forward to defend the sanctity of the police.
“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.”
His conscience is clean and his wallet his full. What’s all the fuss about?
Acting in a non governmental position, as a collective of private citizens. Nor are they suggesting actions be taken if their request is not met.
Its not a 1st Amendment issue. Its a group of idiots trying to get a little press time…helps with fundraising down the road, after all.
They’d better invent a new signal for “touchdown” before things get out of control.
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Police group should clean its own house before tackling the Rams.
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Looks like a TOUCHDOWN to me…
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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.
As journalist Nat Hentoff once mused in a book of this title, “Free Speech for Me, But Not For Thee.”
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“…a narrative that has been disproven over-and-over again…”
We admit the prosecutor has tried again and again to disprove the truth.
We just don’t believe in allowing a government official to sneak some random people off into a room under his complete control, empower him to give them whatever evidence he chooses including letting the accused present his defense unquestioned, and then declare that the grand jury already decided the case.
That’s not America. Kudos to the players. Thank you for your service to our country.
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Lawrence O’ Donnell pointed just out how far the prosecutors went to protect Darren Wilson. After I watched Lawrence explain, I was shocked and angry at the level of deceit they resorted to. Justice never had a chance from the start: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/11/lawrence-odonnell-rips-st-louis-prosecutor-for-making-it-impossible-for-darren-wilson-to-fail/
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“The SLPOA is calling for the players involved to be disciplined and for the Rams and the NFL to deliver a very public apology.”
The American public calls on the Saint Louis Police Department to discipline the SLPOA and require them to deliver a very public apology.
“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.”
Exercise away, Imperial Wizard. Thank you for confirming what America already knows about far too many of your “brothers.” You represent what’s wrong with the police exceptionally well, and I encourage you to keep issuing statements.
I have a news flash for you, Roorda: you ain’t no one’s fucking daddy, and despite the arrogance of being a bully, you don’t give the orders.
“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.”
Yeah: the Klan, the Oath Keepers, the Backstoppers, and their board member, a.k.a. Darren Wilson’s defense attorney, Robert McCulloch.
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Brilliant!!! Someone let Roorda know so he can whine about that too.
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Hey St. Louis Police Association, ever heard of the first-amendment? fuck the police, seriously.
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When did police get to be so thin-skinned?
I demand that they make up a rule against the exercise of free speech and then apply it retroactively because we cops are all about the rule of law! Don’t make us pull you over and arrest you for “disorderly conduct.”
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I hope the Ram’s big wigs told the Cops to fuck off. It would be the right thing ( and the American thing ) to do. While at it they might tell them to stop picking a side in the Ferguson mess as that does not set well with their role as cops.
And what cop objects to a man responding to him by putting his hands in the air? I thought they got off on that.
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Exactly the sleight of hand McCullogh intended with this whole Grand Jury farce.
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The NFL is known for it’s FELONS so why wouldn’t some of their members want to honor Brown who was nothing but a street Thug Felon himself?
We had the incident here in Milwaukee last spring where a mentally ill man was shot and killed by a police officer. The police chief finally fired the officer recently, citing the officer’s disregard for training and best practices. The police union then voted “no confidence” in the chief. Know what, not even the police union’s biggest supporters accepted that vote as anything that the police union should have done.
Funny. When they started quoting the police official all I heard
was blah-bullshit-blah.
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What does this have to do with Free Speech? Did they get arrested?
Wow. Tea Baggers and far Lefties don’t even understand the First Amendment.
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