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Guardian: St Louis County police are investigating a Facebook comment in which one of their officers appears to brag about the extra income he earned while working during protests in Ferguson which marked the one-year anniversary of the killing of Michael Brown.
Officer Todd J Bakula, known as “TJ”, appears to be showing off about extra money earned while part of a massive police response throughout this week with the anniversary demonstrations of Brown’s death, which saw St Louis County cops working long hours.
“I decided to spend my annual Michael Brown bonus on a nice relaxing bicycle ride trip to Defiance,” a Missouri recreation destination about 40 miles from Ferguson, Bakula wrote on his personal Facebook page under the name TJ Thekoola. “Eating dinner now and staying at a bed and breakfast tonight.”
After reviewing the Facebook post, Shawn McGuire, media relations officer at St Louis County police, confirmed to the Guardian by email: “Police officer Bakula is a patrolman with the St Louis County police department.”
“We understand the post is controversial,” McGuire said. “The St Louis County police department takes these allegations very serious in every case. The remarks on the Facebook page will be investigated by our department.”
Bakula did not answer questions sent by email, voicemail or text. The Guardian found contact information for Bakula on a business website which bears Bakula’s first two initials, his wife’s name and both of their images. A text message response to the Guardian initially said that it was the wrong number for Bakula, even though the outgoing voicemail message had the couple’s names.
The Guardian specifically asked how much overtime pay Bakula earned while working on St Louis protests. Overtime for demonstrations can be very lucrative for police officers in Missouri in general.
According to the St Louis Business Journal, just responding in the wake of Brown’s killing in August 2014 cost St Louis County a reported $4m, including“$2.5m in overtime for police work”. By January, the South County Timesreported that St Louis County police had “put in 121,935 hours of work since the shooting, which amounts of $3.9m in overtime costs and $1.2m in fringes”.
First of all, and most importantly, prove that this guy actually wrote this. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, Facebook is only real if you declare that it’s real. If you wanna use your real name on Facebook then more power to ya. But if you wanna tell the truth like this cop did, then don’t use your real name. Because there’s no such thing as free speech in 2015. Did he write this post? Probably. But the fact of the matter is that I could’ve easily created this Facebook account and written that myself. Because nothing on Facebook is real.
How is this a controversy? Look people, this is really simple. If morons didn’t commemorate the feast day of Saint Michael Brown by looting and shooting guns at police officers, then there wouldn’t be a need for so much police overtime. But they did:
Nothing says peaceful protest quite like a man with a pigs head, a bunch of masked men, and some good ol’ fashioned looting. The Ferguson riots 2015 were also a great place to bring your kid at all hours of the night:
Responsible parenting right there folks. This seems like a movement that’s going places for sure.
And just for the record, idiots like this are a huge part of the problem as well:
We get it dude, you’re a bad ass because you have a gun and a walkie talkie. Doesn’t make you a cop. Every time I see one of these fuckheads out there trying to play policeman my head wants to explode. It’s a volatile fucking situation as it is. Go home and watch it on TV like the rest of us.
So anyway, the option for overtime was clearly there. It’s a Christmas bonus for cops. If you don’t want Ferguson cops getting all that extra OT, then tell idiots like Tyrone Harris to stop shooting at them during “peaceful protests.”
Most importantly though, this guy has a right to free speech, regardless of whether or not it hurts your delicate sensibilities. Mike Brown died because he played Russian Roulette with a cop and lost. Of all the people that Black Lives Matter could’ve chosen to hang their hats on, they chose the 300 pounder who robbed a convenience store and tried to steal a cop’s gun.
So yea, it’s pretty fucking stupid that people are protesting in his honor, never mind looting. To any normal person, it’s not a big deal if a cop brags about what he’s doing with his extra OT money he got from keeping these idiots from burning down more black owned businesses. Because the whole concept of protesting in honor of Mike Brown is really, really dumb. You have every right to make light of it, because the people he’s mocking are all morons. And in America, we have a right to laugh at morons.
But of course there are geniuses out there who think this guy is the antichrist now because he got put pictures of his weekend getaway on his personal Facebook page and explained where his legally earned money came from:
LOL. Hippies. Everything is racism. Because…racism. The bottom line is there’s nothing controversial about this post whatsoever. End of story.
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18 Comment(s)
Pretty soon law abiding decent people gonna start putting the whoopin on the thugs taken over the Woo.
Every patrolman in the Woo should get a large bonus for putting up with ghetto trash all over the Woo. Uncooperative trash at that.
Officer TJ is just a thug in blue, like many of his fellow LEO’s. Maybe next year he’ll get a different kind of Michael Brown bonus, courtesy of Smith & Wesson. I’m sure ol’ COB will be happy to step in and take care of his wife on the other side.
Probaly just hit a single mother. Then toss the smith&wesson with serial # worn off into the nearest gun recpticle.
Ah, you clearly have experience with this.
I’d love to see how you internet tough guys respond to some thug sticking a gun in your face. In between crying and shitting your pants you’d be screaming for the police to come save you.
Well Im no tough guy internet or else where. But I grew up in worcester and had the pleasure of someone other than a cop pointing a gun at me. There are no streaks in my underwear and I was to scared to scream. Only a moron thinks the cops are gonna come save them.
No, only a moron spends all his time inventing conspiracy theories about how the police are out to massacre everyone.
ssys re road runner LOLOL
You mean he’s going to take care of the next criminal thug turned sainted hero by the illogical crew?
Eh, maybe. Statistically unlikely.
I think these “Hippies” need to get a life!!
you need to quit suxkin your mas tits
I can’t imagine someone not taking a little bit of joy in the recognition that the only outcome of all this handwringing and arm flapping histrionics is a bigger paycheck for the very people they’re trying to destroy. Especially considering they’re trying to destroy those people because and only because they dared to have the audacity to choose a job that puts them in harms way to protect innocent people.
Is it racist? Fucking no.
Is it wrong to post about spending money you earned legally? Of course not.
It is in poor taste to call it your “annual Michael Brown bonus?” Ehh… probably.
If only he’d been a slam poet. The city of Worcester would have sent him free of charge instead of working all that OT.
It’s racist to spend tax payer funded OT on trips…. Unless I do it.
tony quit jerking it ’80 hrs a week’ behind your computer screen and get a real job
Good for him. I hope he had A good meal.