FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — The police chief in the St. Louis suburb where an officer fatally shot an unarmed teenager says cyber-attacks on his city’s website won’t sway him into publicly releasing the officer’s name.
Ferguson Police Chief Thomas Jackson said Wednesday that someone burrowed into the website and shut it down for much of Monday, two days after the shooting death of 18-year-old Michael Brown.
An anonymous global group of hackers had pledged to create mischief with Ferguson’s city computers if the name wasn’t released. But Jackson says the officer has received numerous death threats, and the chief worries that disclosing his name would endanger the officer.
Brown’s death has drawn protests, a night of looting in Ferguson, and calls for Jackson to release the officer’s name. The officer is on administrative leave.
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If the police chief fears for the officer’s life there is a real easy way to solve the problem. Actually investigate the crime, arrest the officer and put him in the slammer. If he is innocent, I am sure a jury of his peers will let him off. If he is guilty, he will have to worry about his fellow inmates if he is ever released into the general population. In the meantime the police chief should stop acting like a gang leader and start acting like an officer of the law.
Is this going to be a new trend. Anonymous until proven guilty.
Having come from another thread, it gave me an idea - maybe they need to follow what is considered acceptable tactics - publish license plate numbers of the cars at the police station, see what turns up?
Completely support Anonymous, this fat, white tub of shit derserves anything he gets. BTW, this guy apparently has a confederate flag hanging in his living rooms. Says it all.
Damn ! Got to protect the officer!
So many black folks
So few honky cops.
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