FERGUSON, MO. — The spokesman for the Ferguson, Missouri, police department is on unpaid leave and facing disciplinary action after describing the memorial honoring Michael Brown as a “pile of trash” in an interview with The Washington Post.
“I don’t know that a crime has occurred,” the newspaper quoted him as saying Friday. “But a pile of trash in the middle of the street? The Washington Post is making a call over this?”
St. Louis radio station KMOX later reported that Officer told its reporter he had been misquoted and actually said that the memorial might have been destroyed by a motorist unfamiliar with the area who had mistaken it for a pile of trash.
