http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/06/08/1391514/-New-Ferguson-Police-Chief-tells-blatant-and-disturbing-lies-throughout-recent-interview?detail=email
In Ferguson, Missouri, the much-maligned police department is under new management ... kind of. The interim chief is Al Eickhoff, a seasoned veteran of St. Louis area law enforcement. Brought in to replace the former chief, Tom Jackson, after a scathing DOJ report detailed rampant racism and discrimination within the department, the new chief, in so many disturbing ways, is more of the same old crap.
Giving his first in-depth interview with Molly Hennessy-Fiske of the Los Angeles Times, Eickhoff almost immediately slipped off into his own peculiar world of half-truths, strangeness, and outright lies. Either the new chief actually believes the mess he said in this interview, which is disturbing, or he is lying and knows it, which is also disturbing. Below, line by line, we'll address the quotes and thoughts that stand out the most.
Lie #1. "We got a lot of negative notoriety and it all stemmed from Michael Brown's body having to [lie] on the parking lot for 4.5 hours. The reason he was there for so long was because of hostile fire against our officers. We could not get to Michael Brown's body."
Truth: Every single video from August 9 shows that police had full and complete access to Brown's body from the moment he fell on the ground until the moment he was taken away. Zero evidence whatsoever exists of any "hostile fire" against officers. It appears the chief means gunshots against the officers that day and that is a complete fabrication. No matter what, police and other law enforcement officials moved freely in and out of that crime scene non stop. Here are several images which show just how much space the police truly had.
Lie #2: "I don't think other people have paid protesters flying to their city."
Truth: This is a multi-layered lie. First and foremost, 99 percent of protestors in Ferguson and in every city in America are local. Secondly, the chief is clearly watching Glenn Beck, who suggested that people, including myself and DeRay McKesson, are being paid by George Soros. We aren't. It's a fake conservative conspiracy theory and it's sad to see the chief promoting it.
Lie #4: "But what I do tell them is do not believe everything in the DOJ report because the people doing the investigations are not policemen."
Truth: First off, the overwhelming majority of the information in the Ferguson report comes directly from the Ferguson Police Department itself. It wasn't a novel, but a collection of reports and data and interviews of actual employees. Secondly, dozens of seasoned law enforcement officers and Department of Justice employees gathered the intelligence and compiled it in the report. They are imminently respectable. The notion that it can't be believed because they didn't author it is just strange.
it is like that Ferguson teen rapper said to paraphrase "it's in their heads training and all will not change anything" and it hasn't looks like they are taking advise from the wrong sources. with elections somewhat in favor of the majority Black population looks like the police are still caricatures of the early police in the south. just where are they going to take the country back to it's already at the point the know and love it never left especially in areas like Ferguson so again take back to where????? there are factual truths and there are right wing racist lies not hard to distinguish which is which.
