Reposted from SmirkingChimp.com
From YAHOO! News
This involves a Ferguson cop named Todd J Bakula,who posted a note on Facebook about how he was spending his "Michael Brown Bonus" money.
In a Facebook posting under the user name TJ Thekoola, Bakula wrote he was "spending my annual Michael Brown bonus on a nice relaxing bicycle ride trip" and staying at a bed and breakfast with his wife, the Guardian said.
St Louis County police spokesman Shawn McGuire told the Guardian that the post was "controversial" and would be investigated by the department.
I posted from Yahoo News because, along with CNN, Yahoo News is just heinously racist in its comment tone.
Sure, there ARE are number of liberal/decent/intelligent people who post there, but the bulk, as far as I can usually see, are just abjectly racist.
Yahoo News seems to make that slant and encourage racist posters. The article I linked from them is very short, with some detail excluded.
Gawker manages to post additional information: Missouri Cop Brags About "Annual Michael Brown Bonus"
The Guardian reports that St. Louis County police are investigating Officer Todd J. Bakula after he made a Facebook post bragging about his “annual Michael Brown bonus,” an apparent reference to extra income earned while working during protests in Ferguson this week.
Police responded aggressively to demonstrations marking the one year anniversary of Michael Brown’s death. Many St. Louis County police officers ended up working overtime.
Yahoo did not appear to publish this particular inflammatory bit.
The Yahoo Comment Section is just atrocious: racist comment after racist comment, a massive, ugly exercise in just refusing to "get it". Examples:
JElizStewart 6 minutes ago
"St Louis County police spokesman Shawn McGuire told the Guardian that the post was "controversial" and would be investigated by the department."
Saying he's going to take a bike ride and vacation with his wife with extra money is controversial? Oh wait, he's a policeman taking a vacation. No? Then it's gotta be controversial that he said he earned the 'bonus' during the media named "Michael Brown Anniversary Protests". No? What exactly IS the controversy? Why is it a big deal that someone says their spending a bonus on a vacation?
Parker 24 minutes ago | 65 UPRATES
I don't care if your shin color is green, Mike Brown was a bad guy. Do you think it was the first store he robbed or his first physical assault? I wish people would place an actual innocent victim in his place but most of those are kids shot by stray bullets from gangs. We don't celebrate those kids sadly. Holder himself said that Mike Brown was a good shooting. Or for the less minded, he deserved to die that day. Eric Holder was on Mikes side.
A.L. 1 hour ago | UPRATES 186 | Downrates 4
Umm, so what? Not sure what the deal is with this, except someone wanting to start more hate, which is just what we need. Do some of you now have an issue with someone getting a bonus? Most ppl I know get bonuses. Not sure if the police in St. Louis county get paid overtime or not, but I do know that some business compensate with a nice bonus when they do not pay overtime. I would hope that the police in St. Louis county would get paid overtime and a nice bonus too, with all the #$%$ they have had to put up with.
DO YOU THINK THEY GOT HAZARD PAY FOR THAT PERIOD OF TIME WHEN THEY WERE BEING SHOT AT? Which our sorry government and media egged on.....
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Thousands of bitter, hateful racist comments with some proper human comments interspersed.
CNN has, to all appearances, cut off their comment sections altogether - or I have somehow been banned from seeing the, since I was "mean" to the racists and wingnuts. I think CNN suspended them as they really make a site look bad.
Yahoo does not seem to care. Yahoo appears to encourage it. Noting the last comment I posted from the site, the part that reads: #$%$.
Yahoo censors WORDS - in this case it could have just been 'crap' since Yahoo news censors that word. (It does, often and hysterically censor Former Vice President Cheney's name too.) They censor words but encourage bad ideas.
If there is a liberal media, Yahoo News isn't it.
And cops have to have consequences for this ugly mentality they have.