*Update: Cop Who Shot Mike Brown Receives $400K In Donations & Was Previously Fired From Racist Police Dept.? New details are emerging about the cop who shot him and is at the center of this whole tragedy. It turns out that Officer Darren Wilson previously worked for a police department that had to be disbanded because of the overwhelming racial tensions between the officers and the black residents of the community. That didn’t stop Officer Darren Wilson supporters from filling his pockets with over $400,000 in donations though! Check out the details below… Darren Wilson and the other officers at the Jennings, Missouri, police department lost their jobs three years ago. Wilson was a rookie cop at the time. The newspaper described the old Jennings Police Department as “a mainly white department mired in controversy and notorious for its fraught relationship with residents, especially the African American majority… not an ideal place to learn how to police.” The city council deemed tensions between officers and black residents so bad that it was necessary to fire everyone and build a new, more credible department from scratch. Some officers from the disgraced department reapplied for their jobs. Wilson got a job in Ferguson, where he kept a clean disciplinary record and even earned a commendation. But that was all before the events that transpired earlier this month. – Via HuffPost $400,000 in donations for this guy?! Ferguson, Missouri police officer Darren Wilson, who fatally shot unarmed teenager Michael Brown earlier this month, has gone underground since the controversial shooting, but his backers have been coming out in droves and many are showing their support by donating cash online. Almost $400,000 has been raised on the fundraising site gofundme for the six-year police veteran. After the first fundraising drive reached its goal of $234,000, a second page was established and has brought in more than $153,000 in four days. More than 9,000 people combined have contributed to the two fundraising pages.
Posted on: Sun, 28 Sep 2014 21:02:08 +0000
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