Police, Officials Resign After Small Missouri Town Elects First Black Female Mayor

[N35t0r]

That still seems weird.

If you don't have limited terms, then most small town politics work like that.

[DinoDoc]

If you don't have limited terms, then most small town politics work like that.

It's the 2 terms that made me go lol, not the 37 years.

[N35t0r]

He wanted a vacation, or an upstart managed to win a term and he made it hell for him so much that he quickly got his feud back.

[DaShi]

DD doesn't care about the terms. He just wants the conversation to be about anything but how racist that town's police force was.

[Donegeal]

Why do you people assume racism? It could just as easily be sexism. Or possibly she campaigned on some premise that the officers didn't feel was safe. We don't know. More information is needed before hate labels are pasted on these people.

[Sava]

Why do you people assume racism? It could just as easily be sexism. Or possibly she campaigned on some premise that the officers didn't feel was safe. We don't know. More information is needed before hate labels are pasted on these people.

Irrelevant.

What, do you want some sort of scumbag rating system? You want us to rank the different "hate labels"? Is a racist better than a sexist? In my experience, they mostly sort of go together anyways.

From what I've read on the subject, there seemed to be some sort of criminal activity involved. The water commissioner and another city official also resigned. All of the computers were wiped.

Sounds like criminals destroying evidence.

but a scumbag is a scumbag is a scumbag... racist, sexist, deadbeat dad, identity thief... it doesn't matter to me

[Proteus_MST]

Sounds to me like life for the black inhabitants of the village has become safer now, with the resignation of 5 probably racist policemen

[Lorizael]

Why do you people assume racism?

Who's you people?

[Donegeal]

Sorry Lori, you are correct. At the time I posted that, only Sava had jumped to the conclusion of racism without any information (although Jon Miller thanked his statement). Proteus followed it up after I had posted, but rightfully hedged at the end.

[Jon Miller]

Sorry Lori, you are correct. At the time I posted that, only Sava had jumped to the conclusion of racism without any information (although Jon Miller thanked his statement). Proteus followed it up after I had posted, but rightfully hedged at the end.

It is Sava.

However, with 6 police officers in a town of 740 something was wrong.

JM

[Donegeal]

Most definitely; but if the information Sava posted later (about the wiping of computers) proves to be true, I'd be inclined to think this has something to do with corruption or the 'good ol' boy' network going on rather than racism.

[Sava]

Which makes the story better?

[kentonio]

Most definitely; but if the information Sava posted later (about the wiping of computers) proves to be true, I'd be inclined to think this has something to do with corruption or the 'good ol' boy' network going on rather than racism.

I posted the stuff about the computers being wiped! Damn, are you police types always this sloppy with evidence?

[Sava]

Hahaha oh yeah, I read it in your post

[FlameFlash]

Safety concerns? Five racists ****bags out of a department of six resign. It sounds like that town just got a whole lot safer.

Yep