Ferguson officer placed on unpaid leave after calling Michael Brown memorial 'a pile

[mick silver]

Ferguson officer placed on unpaid leave after calling Michael Brown memorial 'a pile of trash'Timothy Zoll, a spokesman for the department, initially denied making incendiary commentshttp://media.zenfs.com/208/2011/06/21/blogger-stableford-40_041211.jpg (http://news.yahoo.com/author/dylan-stableford/) By Dylan Stableford (http://news.yahoo.com/author/dylan-stableford/) 19 hours ago Yahoo News











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The spokesman for the Ferguson, Mo., police department has been placed on unpaid leave after calling the makeshift memorial to slain black teenager Michael Brown a "pile of trash in the middle of the street" after it was destroyed.



Timothy Zoll, the Ferguson police public information officer, told the Washington Post (http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2014/12/26/auto-draft/) that he wasn't sure the destruction of the memorial on Christmas night amounted to a crime.
"I don't know that a crime has occurred," Zoll said, according to the paper (http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2014/12/26/auto-draft/). "But a pile of trash in the middle of the street? The Washington Post is making a call over this?"
When asked about the remarks, Zoll told KMOX-TV (http://stlouis.cbslocal.com/2014/12/27/ferguson-officer-admits-he-made-comments-to-washington-post/) that the Post had misquoted him.
According to a statement by the City of Ferguson released Saturday (http://www.ksdk.com/story/news/local/ferguson/2014/12/27/ferguson-public-information-officer-placed-unpaid-leave/20958777/), Zoll initially denied making the comments to his superiors, too.
"Upon being confronted with the results of the Ferguson Police Department’s investigation regarding the remarks that were attributed to the Public Information Officer, the officer admitted to Department investigators that he did in fact make the remarks attributed to him, and that he misled his superiors when asked about the contents of the interview," the statement read.
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Zoll was placed on unpaid leave pending "disciplinary proceedings." According to city records obtained by Yahoo News, Zoll been with the department for 12 years and earns an annual salary of $50,960.
"The City of Ferguson wants to emphasize that negative remarks about the Michael Brown memorial do not reflect the feelings of the Ferguson Police Department and are in direct contradiction to the efforts of City officials to relocate the memorial to a more secure location," the statement continued. "The Ferguson Police Department also wants to note that even after the officer’s initial denial of his statement; the Police Chief continued the investigation until the truth was discovered. The City of Ferguson and the Ferguson Police Department in particular, are focused on creating a trusting relationship with the entire community and taking impactful steps to improve the effectiveness of the department."
Meanwhile, residents have rebuilt the memorial on Canfield Drive near the site where Brown was fatally shot by a white police officer in August.



I can't believe some destroyed the Canfield memorial on Christmas. Hate is deep. (via @jay_myles2 (https://twitter.com/jay_myles2)) pic.twitter.com/XumtQ23gMT (http://t.co/XumtQ23gMT)
— deray mckesson (@deray) December 26, 2014 (https://twitter.com/deray/status/548391563584217088)
A few people are here and planning to restore the memorial right now. Hate won't win tonight #MikeBrown (https://twitter.com/hashtag/MikeBrown?src=hash) #Ferguson (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Ferguson?src=hash)
— Justin (@jay_myles2) December 26, 2014 (https://twitter.com/jay_myles2/status/548390551347675138)
The rebuilt #MichaelBrown (https://twitter.com/hashtag/MichaelBrown?src=hash) memorial on Canfield. @michaelcalhoun (https://twitter.com/michaelcalhoun) first reported car destroying it this am. pic.twitter.com/us85BXlFUy (http://t.co/us85BXlFUy)
— Brett A. Blume (@brettblumekmox) December 26, 2014 (https://twitter.com/brettblumekmox/status/548496194033291265)
Yahoo News' Jason Sickles contributed to this report.


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[mick silver]

Also the mother of Michael Brown (Lesley Mcspadden) assaulted Michael Browns paternal Grandmother and robbed her of $1,500 in merchandise and a suitcase with $400 in cash. She jumped out of a car and punched Pearlie Gordon, screaming at her that she couldn't sell Michael Brown merchandise or T-shirts.During that assault Michael Brown`s cousin Tony Petty was hit in the head with a pipe and sent to the hospital. Lesley Mcspadden is the same person that is going to give a speech at the United Nations on peace and race relations, could it get anymore hypocritical and bizarre ?

[crimethink]

Yes, it is a pile of trash, and it was/is right in the middle of the street.

[midnight rambler]

Yes, it is a pile of trash, and it was/is right in the middle of the street.

But lawlessness* is ok, so long as it's done in the name of some innocent angel who didn't deserve to be 'gunned down'.

*this pile of abandoned crap in the center of the street is routinely referred to as littering

The guy who got put on unpaid leave should have been more deliberate in his choice of words - if he had said 'collection of abandoned litter creating a hazard in the middle of a public street' rather than 'pile of trash' who could argue with that?? ??? If anything he should have been told to get some 'sensitivity training' rather than cutting off his paycheck.

[Spectrism]

The fear exudes from the white people. Afraid of the niggers calling them racists. Afraid they will be labelled some unforgiveable sin and be looked upon by all of mankind as mean-spirited.

[Tumbleweed]

I think they should rebuild the memorial with a huge bag of Jenkem .

From wickipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenkem

The name derives from Genkem (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Genkem&action=edit&redlink=1), a brand of glues which had "become the generic name for all the glues used by glue-sniffing (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inhalant_abuse) children" in South Africa, where the drug originated and is most popular on the African continent today.[9] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenkem#cite_note-cassere2010-9) In the book Children of AIDS: Africa's Orphan Crisis by Emma Guest, the making of jenkem is described: "fermented human sewage, scraped from pipes and stored in plastic bags for a week or so, until it gives off numbing, intoxicating fumes."[10] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenkem#cite_note-10) The process is similarly described in a 1995 IPS (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inter_Press_Service) report: "Human excreta (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excreta) is scooped up from the edges of the sewer ponds in old cans and containers which are covered with apolyethylene (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyethylene) bag and left to stew or ferment for a week."[4] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenkem#cite_note-IPS-4) A 1999 BBC (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC) article refers to "the dark brown sludge, gathering up fistfuls and stuffing it into small plastic bottles. They tap the bottles on the ground, taking care to leave enough room for methane (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methane) to form at the top."[3] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenkem#cite_note-BBC-3)
The effects of jenkem inhalation last for around an hour and consist of auditory and visual hallucinations (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallucinations) for some users.[3] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenkem#cite_note-BBC-3) In 1995, one user told a reporter it is "more potent than cannabis (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannabis)."[4] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenkem#cite_note-IPS-4) A 1999 report interviewed a user, who said, "With glue, I just hear voices in my head. But with jenkem, I see visions. I see my mother who is dead and I forget about the problems in my life."[3] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenkem#cite_note-BBC-3) Fumito Ichinose, an anesthesia specialist in Boston who conducted a study on the effects of hydrogen sulfide (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_sulfide) gas, or "sewer gas," on mice, informed Salon.com (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salon_(website)) that holding your breath, choking, or "the inhalation of gases like those produced from jenkem could result in hypoxia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypoxia_(medical)), a lack of oxygen flow to the body that could be alternately euphoric and physically dangerous."[7] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenkem#cite_note-Salon-7)

[Cebu_4_2]

I think they should rebuild the memorial with a huge bag of Jenkem .

From wickipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenkem

The name derives from Genkem (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Genkem&action=edit&redlink=1), a brand of glues which had "become the generic name for all the glues used by glue-sniffing (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inhalant_abuse) children" in South Africa, where the drug originated and is most popular on the African continent today.[9] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenkem#cite_note-cassere2010-9) In the book Children of AIDS: Africa's Orphan Crisis by Emma Guest, the making of jenkem is described: "fermented human sewage, scraped from pipes and stored in plastic bags for a week or so, until it gives off numbing, intoxicating fumes."[10] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenkem#cite_note-10) The process is similarly described in a 1995 IPS (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inter_Press_Service) report: "Human excreta (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excreta) is scooped up from the edges of the sewer ponds in old cans and containers which are covered with apolyethylene (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyethylene) bag and left to stew or ferment for a week."[4] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenkem#cite_note-IPS-4) A 1999 BBC (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC) article refers to "the dark brown sludge, gathering up fistfuls and stuffing it into small plastic bottles. They tap the bottles on the ground, taking care to leave enough room for methane (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methane) to form at the top."[3] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenkem#cite_note-BBC-3)
The effects of jenkem inhalation last for around an hour and consist of auditory and visual hallucinations (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallucinations) for some users.[3] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenkem#cite_note-BBC-3) In 1995, one user told a reporter it is "more potent than cannabis (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannabis)."[4] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenkem#cite_note-IPS-4) A 1999 report interviewed a user, who said, "With glue, I just hear voices in my head. But with jenkem, I see visions. I see my mother who is dead and I forget about the problems in my life."[3] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenkem#cite_note-BBC-3) Fumito Ichinose, an anesthesia specialist in Boston who conducted a study on the effects of hydrogen sulfide (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_sulfide) gas, or "sewer gas," on mice, informed Salon.com (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salon_(website)) that holding your breath, choking, or "the inhalation of gases like those produced from jenkem could result in hypoxia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypoxia_(medical)), a lack of oxygen flow to the body that could be alternately euphoric and physically dangerous."[7] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenkem#cite_note-Salon-7)

See? just like acid. The first time I had my septic pumped the dude told me not to breath the fumes or I could die... as he worked away with no mask.

[Santa]

See? just like acid. The first time I had my septic pumped the dude told me not to breath the fumes or I could die... as he worked away with no mask.

Selfish bastard was just bogarting that septic pipe. :)

[Cebu_4_2]

Selfish bastard was just bogarting that septic pipe. :)

That's what I'm thinking, secrets in plain sight....

[Neuro]

I think they should rebuild the memorial with a huge bag of Jenkem .

From wickipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenkem

The name derives from Genkem (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Genkem&action=edit&redlink=1), a brand of glues which had "become the generic name for all the glues used by glue-sniffing (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inhalant_abuse) children" in South Africa, where the drug originated and is most popular on the African continent today.[9] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenkem#cite_note-cassere2010-9) In the book Children of AIDS: Africa's Orphan Crisis by Emma Guest, the making of jenkem is described: "fermented human sewage, scraped from pipes and stored in plastic bags for a week or so, until it gives off numbing, intoxicating fumes."[10] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenkem#cite_note-10) The process is similarly described in a 1995 IPS (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inter_Press_Service) report: "Human excreta (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excreta) is scooped up from the edges of the sewer ponds in old cans and containers which are covered with apolyethylene (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyethylene) bag and left to stew or ferment for a week."[4] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenkem#cite_note-IPS-4) A 1999 BBC (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC) article refers to "the dark brown sludge, gathering up fistfuls and stuffing it into small plastic bottles. They tap the bottles on the ground, taking care to leave enough room for methane (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methane) to form at the top."[3] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenkem#cite_note-BBC-3)
The effects of jenkem inhalation last for around an hour and consist of auditory and visual hallucinations (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallucinations) for some users.[3] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenkem#cite_note-BBC-3) In 1995, one user told a reporter it is "more potent than cannabis (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannabis)."[4] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenkem#cite_note-IPS-4) A 1999 report interviewed a user, who said, "With glue, I just hear voices in my head. But with jenkem, I see visions. I see my mother who is dead and I forget about the problems in my life."[3] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenkem#cite_note-BBC-3) Fumito Ichinose, an anesthesia specialist in Boston who conducted a study on the effects of hydrogen sulfide (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_sulfide) gas, or "sewer gas," on mice, informed Salon.com (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salon_(website)) that holding your breath, choking, or "the inhalation of gases like those produced from jenkem could result in hypoxia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypoxia_(medical)), a lack of oxygen flow to the body that could be alternately euphoric and physically dangerous."[7] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenkem#cite_note-Salon-7)
Now Al Gore the visionary is explained...
http://1389blog.com/pix/al-gore-breathing-fire-and-brimstone.jpg
He is inhaling jenkem...