Another cop in hot water over in Ferguson... Like I have said before, the cops in these suburbs are for the most part Rambo wanabies with a Barney Fife attitude.... This guy has been a cop for 20 years. You would think he could control his emotions while on the job by now. I wonder how many other people officer Albers has threaten over the years?

CONFIRMED: Cop Who Threatened Ferguson Protesters Is Lt. Ray Albers

The suburban St. Louis police officer who threatened to kill protesters with his weapon drawn in Ferguson is Lt. Ray Albers, his boss said.

Albers, 46, a 20-year police veteran who served four years in the Army, is the man caught on video screaming at protesters, "I will fucking kill you," while pointing his rifle at civilians, St. Ann Police Chief Aaron Jimenez told The Huffington Post Wednesday night.

Albers told the chief he was sick to his stomach and "should have known better," Jimenez said. He has been placed on indefinite, unpaid suspension from the force while an investigation is underway.

"It's frustrating, because we told [our officers] before we went down there that there would be lots of people trying to antagonize to provoke them into saying something," Jimenez said. "Whether you’re a pedestrian or protesters, you have to be professional, and [Albers'] actions weren't in any way, shape or form."

Stress and fear may have contributed to the confrontation, Jimenez said, but didn't excuse the officer's behavior. However, the police chief said his department supports Albers' raising of his weapon at protesters.

"He saw three to four suspects with bandanas on, and saw one of them raise a gun towards him," Jimenez said. "That made him draw his weapon up to the crowd, and he was scanning and moving that weapon back and forth, trying to asses the scene. ... Him seeing the gun in the crowd, he had every right to protect himself in fear of danger until he assessed the scene."

Bottles of urine were being thrown at the officer, Jimenez said. In a YouTube video that captured the terrifying confrontation between protesters and Albers, people can be heard screaming "Don't throw anything!"

"Most of the protesters are really good people, but there's a small percentage of people that are out there trying to antagonize and make the protesters look bad," Jimenez said.

Jimenez said he was "highly angry and upset" that Albers refused to give his name to those filming.

"When he was asked the name, you need to be giving your name so they know who to contact," Jimenez said. "So when he said, 'Go F yourself,' that was uncalled for too."

Before his Facebook page was taken down, Albers posted a status the night of the video asking people to pray for officers.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/...d=maing-grid7|main5|dl2|sec1_lnk2&pLid=518241

 

Here is the video of officer friendly walking around in a crowd of people. Everyone is pretty calm with the exception of officer Albers walking around pointing an AR-15 at people and telling them he's going to fucking kill them.

It doesn't look like he is scared or being threaten. Now, if you would point an AR-15 at someone and tell them "I'll fucking kill you", how fast do you thing your ass would land in jail?

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The media in this country is so fucking stupid. They are milking this for all its worth in an effort just toboost ratings and stirring racialtensions in the process. Nobody seems to want to admit that the "gentle giant"that everyone is soupset about being shot had just committed a strong arm robbery, or that this "honest kid" being six foot three or four and three hundred pounds had nearly beaten the officer who shot him unconscious, fracturing the officers eye socket and sending him to the hospital.Or that part of what lead up to the shooting was a struggle over the officers gun. This after the officer approached him and asked why he was walking down the middleof the street instead of using the sidewalk.

Those who scream about racist motives need to look no farther than the black community to find it.

 

the idea of a fractured or broken socket has been shot full of holes by the x-ray
it was not broken but it was bruised
most media people do not give a damn what they are doing because in the end they are just like the government.....corrupt

 

Must not have hit him that hard then. Everytime I've punched someone I broke those bones.

 

what people are forgetting is that the original scuffle took place through a partly open car window so some marks will not be as bad as they would if they were standing in the roadway

 

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Can this information be verified?

 

Can this information be verified? Are you privy to the investigation?

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...hospital-swollen-face-deadly-altercation.html

Police officer who shot Michael Brown did NOT suffer a broken eye socket but he did go to hospital with a swollen face after deadly altercation

Officer Darren Wilson did not suffer a broken eye socket as a result of his deadly confrontation, according to latest reports
On Tuesday it was reported that he had suffered an 'orbital blowout fracture'
The officer was taken to a hospital with a badly swollen face following the shooting on August 9, but x-rays came back negative for any serious injury
Earlier reports had claimed that the officer was almost knocked unconscious by Brown's blows
Only six arrests were logged overnight in Ferguson on Thursday as the town witnessed a more peaceful night


http://www.salon.com/2014/08/21/cnn...cer_darren_wilson_had_a_fractured_eye_socket/

CNN refutes bogus Fox News claim: Darren Wilson didn’t have a fractured eye socket
The rumor of Wilson's injuries has been floating around various media outlets, unsubstantiated






http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/08/1...hooting-protesters-in-ferguson-two-reporters/

The protests stemmed from Saturday's fatal shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown, whom police have said was shot after an officer encountered him and another man on the street. They say one of the men pushed the officer into his squad car, then physically assaulted him in the vehicle and struggled with the officer over the officer's weapon. At least one shot was fired inside the car. The struggle then spilled onto the street, where Brown was shot multiple times. In their initial news conference about the shooting, police didn't specify whether Brown was the person who scuffled with the officer in the car and have refused to clarify their account.



http://thedailysmug.blogspot.com/2014/08/police-chief-shot-was-fired-in-officers.html

Police Chief: Shot Was Fired in Officer's Car Before Death of Michael Brown | Fox News Insider
Ferguson, Mo., Police Chief Thomas Jackson confirmed on Hannity that a shot was fired inside a police officer's vehicle during a struggle that ultimately resulted in the death of an unarmed black teenager.

 

now here is a story about a useless cop that it making good officers look bad in st. louis

http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/st-louis-cop-suspended-threatening-kill-everybody

St. Louis cop suspended for threatening to ‘kill everybody’

ST. LOUIS – Officials suspended a 35-year-veteran of the St. Louis County police force who has been working the streets of Ferguson for making violent and offensive comments in a recently-surfaced video.

In the video, filmed in 2010, Dan Page can be seen threatening to kill anyone who “show up in front of me,” and promoting various hateful conspiracy theories about Muslims and President Obama’s birthplace.

St. Louis County Police Chief Jon Belmar told the St. Louis Post Dispatch on Saturday that he placed the officer on administrative leave, pending an internal affairs investigation. “Had he been a probationary officer doing the same thing, I would have fired him two hours ago,” Belmar told the paper.

In a statement posted on Facebook, Belmar apologized, saying Page’s views do not reflect that of the department or its officers.

The OathKeepers are a group of current and former police officers and military servicemembers who vow to disobey orders they consider unconstitutional. It has ties to right-wing militias and other so-called Patriot groups .

One of the orders the group says it will not obey is to “impose martial law or a ‘state of emergency.’” Page was part of the heavy police crackdown in Ferguson during unrest following the killing of Michael Brown.

In the YouTube video of Page’s speech to the OathKeepers, the officer brags about his ability to take life. “I personally believe in Jesus Christ as my lord savior, but I’m also a killer. I’ve killed a lot. And if I need to, I’ll kill a whole bunch more,” he says. “I’m into diversity. I kill everybody, I don’t care.”

“I’m into diversity. I kill everybody, I don’t care.”
Suspended St. Louis Police Officer Dan Page
He also makes offensive comments about Muslims and says that he retired early from the Army Reserves because he didn’t want to take orders from “an undocumented president.” (“He was born in Kenya,” Page adds of Obama.)

Page first came to world’s attention after he shoved CNN reporter Don Lemon, who then sent the OathKeeper video to Belmar.

Meanwhile, an officer in the small St. Louis suburb of Glendale was also suspended after posting on Facebook that those protesting Brown’s death should have been “put down like rabid dogs” on the first night of turmoil, according to the Post-Dispatch.

A third officer was suspended earlier for pointing a rifle at unarmed protesters and threatening to kill them.

 

http://theweek.com/article/index/26...unarmed-white-youth-by-a-black-police-officer

The case of Michael Brown, the unarmed, black teenager shot and killed by a white police officer, continues to make headlines weeks after the incident sparked riots and outrage in Ferguson, Missouri, and prompted a national debate.

Meanwhile, the case of Dillon Taylor, an unarmed, white 20-year-old shot and killed by a black policeman outside a 7-Eleven in Utah has received virtually no media coverage beyond local news reports.

The negligible coverage of the Taylor case by the mainstream media prompted many conservative critics to address the racial double standard. The Washington Times reports: "Talk-show host Rush Limbaugh blamed the discrepancy between the two cases on 'the liberal world view' that portrays whites as oppressors and blacks as victims."

The Times noted that CNN news host Jake Tapper acknowledged the discrepancy between the two cases, and noted that "the press often undercovers such topics as inner-city violence and the high rates of black-on-black crime."

According to Tapper, though, the Brown case is more newsworthy because of the national reaction it sparked, though some question whether the excessive media coverage of the violent protests actually served to fuel them.
- - Teresa Mull

 

Sort of like the case of the 13 month old child shot in the face and killed during a robbery by two of the poor black boys.
I don't remember any rioting then either.

 

DOZENS OF POLICE DEPARTMENTS SUSPENDED FOR LOSING US MILITARY-GRADE WEAPONRY

August 27, 2014


SOURCE: RT

Close to 200 state and local police departments in the United States have been suspended for losing military-level equipment transferred to them by the Pentagon, a new investigation found.

According to the media outlet Fusion, its independent investigation into the Pentagon’s “1033 program,” which equips state and local police departments across the US with excess military equipment, turned up an alarming trend: Not only did many law enforcement agencies fail to comply with the program’s guidelines, they routinely lost dangerous weaponry.

Already, the investigation has found that police departments in Arizona, California, Mississippi, Missouri, Georgia, and others have lost or cannot account for various types of weapons. This list includes M14 and M16 assault rifles, .45-caliber pistols, shotguns, and even vehicles.

So far, 184 state and local departments have reportedly been suspended in a program that involves the participation of more than 8,000 agencies. Since 1990, the 1033 program has administered more than $4.3 billion worth of equipment and weapons.

In the wake of heavy police response to protests surrounding the death of unarmed teenager Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, the topic of police militarization has emerged at the forefront of public debate in the US. Police employed heavily armored vehicles, sniper rifles, tear gas, and riot gear as they confronted demonstrators against excessive force, sparking widespread concern throughout the country, particularly over the Pentagon’s military equipment transfer program.

Although the Pentagon stated the program is meant to “enhance public safety and improve homeland security,” critics argue that the inability of police to keep track of their equipment adds another layer of doubt to the idea that security is being improved.

“The case for giving military weaponry to these small police departments was already thin in the beginning,” Tim Lynch of the CATO Institute’s project on criminal justice said to Fusion. “Now that we’re finding that there is insufficient accountability for tracking this equipment, then the case is beginning to fall apart.”

Firearms were routinely lost or misplaced. In Arizona alone, the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Department lost 11 or 12 weapons.In at least two cases, Humvees were reported missing. In Georgia, the Humvee was reportedly sold somehow, only to be recovered later and moved to a different department. Another case in Arkansas involved a stolen Humvee that was not reported until a day later.

“[The program] is obviously very sloppy, and it’s another reason that Congress needs to revisit this promptly,” Lynch added. “We don’t know where these weapons are going, whether they are really lost, or whether there is corruption involved.”\

As RT reported previously, questions over the Pentagon program have reached President Obama as well, as he recently ordered a review of the entire operation. The probe will determine whether or not police should actually be receiving the equipment they get, the way these weapons are being used, and whether officers are being trained properly.