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12666191, this should have gotten more press
Posted by MrThomas43423, Wed Dec-03-14 04:04 PM
>Black St. Louis Cops Organization Commends Rams Players
>
>http://deadspin.com/black-st-louis-cops-organization-commends-rams-players-1666228580
>
>In response to the St. Louis Police Officers Association's
>demand that a handful of St. Louis Rams players who took the
>field in a "hands up, don't shoot" pose be punished for making
>a "tasteless, offensive and inflammatory" gesture, the Ethical
>Society of Police—an organization for black police officers
>in St. Louis—has pledged its support for the Rams players.
>
>From a statement on the group's official Facebook page:
>
>We think that their actions were commendable and that they
>should not be ridiculed, disciplined or punished for taking a
>stand on this very important issue which is of great concern
>around the world and especially in the community where these
>players work.

especially this.

>In a separate Facebook post, the organization took a more
>direct shot at the St. Louis Police Officers Association,
>specifically its disgraced ex-cop mouthpiece, Jeff Roorda:
>
>The Ethical Society of Police (ESOP) commends the involved St.
>Louis Rams' Players for their courageous stance and
>demonstration against police brutality and excessive force.
>Additionally, the ESOP condemns the St. Louis Police Officer's
>Association for allowing Roorda to embarrass the officers of
>the St. Louis Police Department with his insensitive,
>conservative, right-winged opinions on the police brutality
>and excessive force issues, which continue to boil surrounding
>the police involved shooting death of Michael Brown, and he
>subsequent non-indictment of former Ferguson Police Officer,
>Darren Wilson.


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it's true what they say...people are strange, when you're strangers.

not compassionate....only polite.

I am not like you at all and i cannot pretend.