By Antonio D. French
Filed Tuesday, March 14 at 1:41 PM
Someone recently posted a link to one of PUB DEF's videos on the controversial website, CopTalk. The spike in recent traffic caught our eye. That's when we came across a disturbing discussion.
People identifying themselves as St. Louis City police officers have been voicing their concerns on the website about the creation of a Civilian Review Board to investigate reports of police misconduct. They have also lashed out at the aldermen that voted in favor of the bill.
"Where do they get the idea that some shitbag should have the right to investigate a police officer?," wrote one person on the St. Louis CopTalk electronic bulletin board.
They then went into a slanderous attack on two aldermen that voted for Board Bill 69. "I love how they point out the black aldermans [sic] votes. Hey OL Shelton, hows [sic] your son in-law [sic], you know, the one you posted bond for that comitted [sic] a home invasin [sic] and then was caught with a sawed off [sic] shotgun, and just got sentenced to federal time?," he wrote.
The same person then targeted Ald. Freeman Bosley, Sr. "How's your daughter and her drug dealing fiance?" They finished with, "If this thing makes it past the police board, I'm outta here."
Someone replied later, "Let's not forget the rampant voter fraud that abounds in the northern wards."
In another post, someone reminded his or her fellow officers, "Don't forget folks, this board has NO AUTHORITY over SLMPD officers, none whatsoever. They are akin to an activist group, that's all. We are not employed by the city, remember? We are employees of the Board of Police Commissioners and only they, and they alone, can exercise authority over us."
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7:35 PM, March 14, 2006
So, Mayor Slay objects to several paragraphs at the beginning of the bill asserting the existence of a "blue wall of silence?" Perhaps the mayor needs to meet the cop who wrote "Where do they get the idea that some shitbag should have the right to investigate a police officer?"
10:32 AM, March 15, 2006
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