Officer ‘Go F**K Yourself’ Officially Off Police Force
A Missouri police officer who was caught on video raising his weapon and telling Ferguson protesters that he would kill them has resigned from the force.
Lt. Ray Albers, 46, stepped down from the St. Ann police department on Thursday, the St. Louis Dispatch reported. The resignation comes just a little over a week after news outlets confirmed Albers' identity in footage of the officer threatening civilians protesting the death of Michael Brown.
"I will ****ing kill you!" Albers shouts on video, his weapon pointed at unarmed protesters.
When asked his name, Albers can be heard telling the protester: "Go **** yourself."
Albers, who served in the military, was a 20-year veteran of the department.
In an earlier interview, St. Ann Police Chief Aaron Jimenez said he was "highly angry and upset" at Albers' choice of words, but defended the officer's use of raising his weapon in the air.
According to The Dispatch, Jimenez said if the incident in Ferguson happened at any other time, Albers would have been suspended without pay.
"A whole bunch of what you'd call citizen journalists, who were sitting with cameras recording, waiting for something stupid to happen, which they got. They won on this one," Jimenez told the publication. With that shit attitude I bet Jimenez must have a great re-pore with the news media.
Yes by all means blame the public, not the fact that the Albers was an over reactionary asshole chief. Another famous non-apology, apology.
Here is the Lt. last public photograph.
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