Discussion for article #228115
Who better to represent a killer than a convicted killer?
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“Let’s not bicker and argue about who killed who…”
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“This is supposed to be a happy occasion!”
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Shocking: Man who was convicted of something and then did his time is somehow still allowed by society to find employment of some kind, earn money and thereby feed, clothe and shelter himself. The End Times draw nigh. Story at 10.
Yawn.
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He didn’t waste his time pumping iron in the yard, he studied public relations and now he bills his time at $150 per hour.
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I’m a firm believer of how can we expect people to actually function in society after leaving prison, and not return to crime if we don’t want to hire them for jobs. That being said, it’s a pretty boneheaded move to hire him as the head of PR, as if his background would never come up. The PTB in Ferguson have made so many poor decisions regarding this case though, it doesn’t surprise me.
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Thant doesn’t seem a lot for a PR person, but maybe Missouri has a lower cost of living than DC.
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Shorter James: I don’t know why you are all coming down on that poor cop. … I mean who hasn’t in the excitement of the moment…
If nobody else had seen this PR fiasco coming James should have.
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Gotta agree with AJM—it’s James’s job to foresee this exact kind of thing. But maybe he’s one of those people who are better at selling themselves than they are at doing the actual job. I’ve known a few like that in the PR racket.
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Ferguson’s budget does not have a lot of flexibility. The only major revenue source is fines for nuisance violations, and the expenses (ammo and tear gas) are immense.
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He paid his debt to society, and he was up front with his employer about his past. If he was doing his job to his employers satisfaction, I see no grounds for his termination.
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A PR person who doesn’t forsee the potential PR nightmare his employment would cause. No wonder he only gets $150 an hour.
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He can still earn his money rehabilitating the image of other killers.
It’s a sparse market under normal circumstances. Out of control police departments are keeping them afloat.
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But plenty of grounds for the termination of the individual who hired him. You don’t hire a killer to rehabilitate the image of a police force now under scrutiny for a killing, because doing so amplifies the controversy and underscores their tone-deafness, as it’s clearly doing now.
And, as MattinPA pointed out, the fact that the man took the job speaks to his competence in the role.
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Not sure what you’re getting at there.
A convicted killer of a white, or black man?
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If Ferguson can afford $150/hr for a PR firm, then they certainly can handle a $50Million payout in a wrongful death suit. ( If my math is right. )
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To play devil’s advocate here: would we even be hearing this story if the dude was white?
Had to be asked. We ask it all the time when the story is more clearly cut along racial lines. Is his a big deal to the MSM or even places like TPM in part because he’s black? Would it garner no attention if the guy was white because people would more readily accept a white guy having been reintegrated into society after paying his debt? Is his rehabilitation and redemption being subjected to higher scrutiny as a result of his skin color? Is it simply that the MSM recognizes attaching the word “killer” and all its connotations to a black man is more acceptable and certainly more sensational because it conjures more gripping imagery than attaching it to a white guy…even though it was deemed reckless, not intentional, homicide?
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