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Showing Original Post only (View all)WOW! St. Louis police are not happy enough that the game is rigged in their favor [View all]
Roorda was incensed that the Rams and the NFL would tolerate such behavior and called it remarkably hypocritical. "All week long, the Rams and the NFL were on the phone with the St. Louis Police Department asking for assurances that the players and the fans would be kept safe from the violent protesters who had rioted, looted, and burned buildings in Ferguson. Our officers have been working 12 hour shifts for over a week, they had days off including Thanksgiving cancelled so that they could defend this community from those on the streets that perpetuate this myth that Michael Brown was executed by a brother police officer and then, as the players and their fans sit safely in their dome under the watchful protection of hundreds of St. Louis's finest, they take to the turf to call a now-exonerated officer a murderer, that is way out-of-bounds, to put it in football parlance," Roorda said.
The SLPOA is calling for the players involved to be disciplined and for the Rams and the NFL to deliver a very public apology. Roorda said he planned to speak to the NFL and the Rams to voice his organization's displeasure tomorrow. He also plans to reach out to other police organizations in St. Louis and around the country to enlist their input on what the appropriate response from law enforcement should be. Roorda warned, "I know that there are those that will say that these players are simply exercising their First Amendment rights. Well I've got news for people who think that way, cops have first amendment rights too, and we plan to exercise ours. I'd remind the NFL and their players that it is not the violent thugs burning down buildings that buy their advertiser's products. It's cops and the good people of St. Louis and other NFL towns that do. Somebody needs to throw a flag on this play. If it's not the NFL and the Rams, then it'll be cops and their supporters."
The SLPOA is calling for the players involved to be disciplined and for the Rams and the NFL to deliver a very public apology. Roorda said he planned to speak to the NFL and the Rams to voice his organization's displeasure tomorrow. He also plans to reach out to other police organizations in St. Louis and around the country to enlist their input on what the appropriate response from law enforcement should be. Roorda warned, "I know that there are those that will say that these players are simply exercising their First Amendment rights. Well I've got news for people who think that way, cops have first amendment rights too, and we plan to exercise ours. I'd remind the NFL and their players that it is not the violent thugs burning down buildings that buy their advertiser's products. It's cops and the good people of St. Louis and other NFL towns that do. Somebody needs to throw a flag on this play. If it's not the NFL and the Rams, then it'll be cops and their supporters."
http://www.ksdk.com/story/news/local/2014/11/30/stl-police-officers-association-condemns-rams-display/19721979/
Fuck these fucking fucks.
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WOW! St. Louis police are not happy enough that the game is rigged in their favor [View all]
Ykcutnek
Nov 2014
OP
Well, they're black so free speech doesn't apply to them. They have been very bad children!
DesertDiamond
Dec 2014
#41
"Pissed-offedness"? Hmm, problem is trying to take an adjective ("pissed off") and
KingCharlemagne
Dec 2014
#14
I like it, pissedoffness. I like the sound, the way it rolls off my tongue, pissedoffness, yeah.
Dont call me Shirley
Dec 2014
#17
Thanks - Sometimes you've just got to come up with a new word when you can't find one you are
jillan
Dec 2014
#18
All black athletes (and any other athletes) in the NFL, NBA and MLB should immediately
KingCharlemagne
Dec 2014
#13
No, the Players should do what the Rams did, it would embarrass the Missouri Prosecutor
happyslug
Dec 2014
#38
I like the cut of your jib! I hope the NFL Players' Association responds by
KingCharlemagne
Dec 2014
#39
The Dixiecrats are showing themselves as who they are, Nixon, McCulloch, Roorda.
Dont call me Shirley
Dec 2014
#20
Weirdly enough, these Mayberry Machiavellis may be inspiring enough disgust and revulsion to create
KingCharlemagne
Dec 2014
#23
We can't discount the reality that some cops might sincerely feel this way.
True Blue Door
Dec 2014
#32
I love that it was in the face of the increased police presence at the stadium.
ScreamingMeemie
Dec 2014
#55