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'''Thomas Jackson''' is a former police officer.<ref name=cbc2015-03-11A/> He was the Chief of Police of [[Ferguson, Missouri]] when one of his officers, [[Darren Wilson]], killed an 18 year-old black man, [[Michael Brown (youth)|Michael Brown]], on August 9, 2014. He had been Chief since 2010. His department included 54 police officers. | '''Thomas Jackson''' is a former police officer.<ref name=cbc2015-03-11A/><ref name=CtvFergusonFigures/> He was the Chief of Police of [[Ferguson, Missouri]] when one of his officers, [[Darren Wilson]], killed an 18 year-old black man, [[Michael Brown (youth)|Michael Brown]], on August 9, 2014. He had been Chief since 2010. His department included 54 police officers. | ||
The killing triggered outrage, and protests.<ref name=cbc2015-03-11A/> | The killing triggered outrage, and protests.<ref name=cbc2015-03-11A/><ref name=CtvFergusonFigures/> Jackson's response to community outrage was seen as heavy-handed, as it included tear gas and riot squads. Jackson resigned after a scathing report from the [[U.S. Department of Justice]] criticized systemic racism within his department. His was the sixth resignation after the killing. | ||
Jackson published a book about the incident, in July 2017, entitled ''“Policing Ferguson, Policing America: What Really Happened — and What the Country Can Learn From It.”''<ref name=stltoday2017-07-29/> Primary premises of the book include the assertion that officer Wilson was justified to use deadly force, and he did so in an appropriate manner; and that Wilson, Jackson himself, and all other local policemen, were unfairly demonized by a hostile and irresponsible press.<ref name=npr2017-08-06/><ref name=storytel2022-05-16/> He was critical of [[Attorney General]] [[Eric Holder]], who he argued, lead a premature rush to judgement. | |||
According to a review in [[Publisher's Weekly]] Jackson book ''"adds little clarity"''.<ref name=publishersweeklyPolicingFerguson/> | |||
In ''An Exploration of Trust in Community Leadership Contexts'' the authors quoted Jackson's acknowledgment that he had no training for many of the roles he found himself called upon to perform<ref name=umslExplorationTrust/>: | |||
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:''"I have no training in social work or urban planning, education or economic development, and still, as a public servant and citizen, as well as a police officer, I involved myself in various efforts in all of these different areas, not only because the public seems to expect that from cops, but because these are ways in which I can have a positive impact."<ref name=umslExplorationTrust/> | |||
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| url = https://www.npr.org/2017/08/06/541929782/policing-ferguson-policing-america-the-unrest-over-the-death-of-michael-brown | |||
| title = 'Policing Ferguson, Policing America': The Unrest Over The Death Of Michael Brown | |||
| work = [[National Public Radio]] | |||
| author = Stacey Vanek Smith | |||
| date = 2017-08-06 | |||
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| archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20210613094617/https://www.npr.org/2017/08/06/541929782/policing-ferguson-policing-america-the-unrest-over-the-death-of-michael-brown | |||
| archivedate = 2021-06-13 | |||
| accessdate = 2022-07-20 | |||
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| quote = And, by the way, the politicians just threw the police under the bus right away. So they criticized us for using tear gas, but when you've got a violent crowd that's - where people are shooting guns, throwing rocks and urine and things like that, that's a deadly force situation for everybody. And tear gas is the safest way to disperse a crowd without hurting anybody. The other choices, you know, being nightsticks and things. | |||
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| url = https://www. | | url = https://www.storytel.com/ae/ar/books/policing-ferguson-policing-america-what-really-happened-and-what-the-country-can-learn-from-it-1741186 | ||
| title = Ferguson | | title = Policing Ferguson, Policing America: What Really Happened—and What the Country Can Learn from It | ||
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| quote = | | quote = Following the fatal shooting in broad daylight of unarmed African American Michael Brown by a white cop in August 2014, Ferguson, Missouri became the scene of protests that pitted police against locals and Black Lives Matter. | ||
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| url = https://irl.umsl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1941&context=dissertation | |||
| title = An Exploration of Trust in Community Leadership Contexts | |||
| work = [[University of Missouri]] | |||
| author = Richard Hudanick, Kimberlie M. Straatmann, Michael Miller, Andrea Harper, Joshua White | |||
| date = 2019-05-25 | |||
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| url = | | url = https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-5107-1976-7 | ||
| title = | | title = Policing Ferguson, Policing America: What Really Happened—and What the Country Can Learn from It | ||
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| quote = He firmly believes that his department was defamed by the unruly media and a biased federal investigation. Although the FBI concluded that the shooting was justified, the Justice Department’s review of the Ferguson police force under Jackson’s leadership found a pattern of unconstitutional conduct aimed at the city’s African-American population. | |||
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| url = https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/ferguson-police-chief-thomas-jackson-resigns-after-scathing-report-1.2990912 | |||
| title = Ferguson police Chief Thomas Jackson resigns after scathing report | |||
| work = [[CBC News]] | |||
| date = 2015-03-11 | |||
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| quote = The resignation of Chief Thomas Jackson was the latest in a string of departures since the Justice Department said on March 4 that a months-long probe had uncovered a range of unlawful and unconstitutional practices in the St. Louis suburb. | |||
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| url = https://www.stltoday.com/entertainment/books-and-literature/reviews/ex-police-chief-tells-his-own-side-of-ferguson-shooting/article_c3e8e1a3-3d99-54e7-b028-732fc568b95e.html | |||
| title = Ex-police chief tells his own side of Ferguson shooting | |||
| work = [[St. Louis Post-Dispatch]] | |||
| author = Harry Levins | |||
| date = 2017-07-29 | |||
| archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20200604134409/https://www.stltoday.com/entertainment/books-and-literature/reviews/ex-police-chief-tells-his-own-side-of-ferguson-shooting/article_c3e8e1a3-3d99-54e7-b028-732fc568b95e.html | |||
| archivedate = 2020-06-04 | |||
| accessdate = 2022-07-19 | | accessdate = 2022-07-19 | ||
| url-status = live | | url-status = live | ||
| quote = | | quote = Jackson has written a book that swerves from anger at what he sees as unfair condemnation of his police force to some well-reasoned thoughts on how police departments and communities can get along better. | ||
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[https://web.archive.org/web/20200604134409/https://www.stltoday.com/entertainment/books-and-literature/reviews/ex-police-chief-tells-his-own-side-of-ferguson-shooting/article_c3e8e1a3-3d99-54e7-b028-732fc568b95e.html mirror] | |||
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| url = | | url = https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/ferguson-key-figures-in-the-michael-brown-case-1.2113490/comments-7.581808/comments-7.581808/comments-7.581808 | ||
| title = | | title = Ferguson: Key figures in the Michael Brown case | ||
| work = | | work = [[CTV News]] | ||
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| quote = | | quote = Thomas Jackson was a police veteran long before he came to Ferguson. He spent more than 30 years with the St. Louis County Police Department, at one point serving as commander of a drug task force. Before that he was a SWAT team supervisor, undercover detective and hostage negotiator. | ||
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Thomas Jackson is a former police officer.[1][2] He was the Chief of Police of Ferguson, Missouri when one of his officers, Darren Wilson, killed an 18 year-old black man, Michael Brown, on August 9, 2014. He had been Chief since 2010. His department included 54 police officers.
The killing triggered outrage, and protests.[1][2] Jackson's response to community outrage was seen as heavy-handed, as it included tear gas and riot squads. Jackson resigned after a scathing report from the U.S. Department of Justice criticized systemic racism within his department. His was the sixth resignation after the killing.
Jackson published a book about the incident, in July 2017, entitled “Policing Ferguson, Policing America: What Really Happened — and What the Country Can Learn From It.”[3] Primary premises of the book include the assertion that officer Wilson was justified to use deadly force, and he did so in an appropriate manner; and that Wilson, Jackson himself, and all other local policemen, were unfairly demonized by a hostile and irresponsible press.[4][5] He was critical of Attorney General Eric Holder, who he argued, lead a premature rush to judgement.
According to a review in Publisher's Weekly Jackson book "adds little clarity".[6]
In An Exploration of Trust in Community Leadership Contexts the authors quoted Jackson's acknowledgment that he had no training for many of the roles he found himself called upon to perform[7]:
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Ferguson police Chief Thomas Jackson resigns after scathing report, CBC News, 2015-03-11. Retrieved on 2022-07-19. “The resignation of Chief Thomas Jackson was the latest in a string of departures since the Justice Department said on March 4 that a months-long probe had uncovered a range of unlawful and unconstitutional practices in the St. Louis suburb.”
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Ferguson: Key figures in the Michael Brown case, CTV News. Retrieved on 2022-07-19. “Thomas Jackson was a police veteran long before he came to Ferguson. He spent more than 30 years with the St. Louis County Police Department, at one point serving as commander of a drug task force. Before that he was a SWAT team supervisor, undercover detective and hostage negotiator.”
- ↑ Harry Levins. Ex-police chief tells his own side of Ferguson shooting, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 2017-07-29. Retrieved on 2022-07-19. “Jackson has written a book that swerves from anger at what he sees as unfair condemnation of his police force to some well-reasoned thoughts on how police departments and communities can get along better.” mirror
- ↑ Stacey Vanek Smith. 'Policing Ferguson, Policing America': The Unrest Over The Death Of Michael Brown, National Public Radio, 2017-08-06. Retrieved on 2022-07-20. “And, by the way, the politicians just threw the police under the bus right away. So they criticized us for using tear gas, but when you've got a violent crowd that's - where people are shooting guns, throwing rocks and urine and things like that, that's a deadly force situation for everybody. And tear gas is the safest way to disperse a crowd without hurting anybody. The other choices, you know, being nightsticks and things.”
- ↑ Policing Ferguson, Policing America: What Really Happened—and What the Country Can Learn from It, Storytel, 2022-05-16. Retrieved on 2022-07-20. (in Arabic) “Following the fatal shooting in broad daylight of unarmed African American Michael Brown by a white cop in August 2014, Ferguson, Missouri became the scene of protests that pitted police against locals and Black Lives Matter.”
- ↑ Policing Ferguson, Policing America: What Really Happened—and What the Country Can Learn from It, Publisher's Weekly. Retrieved on 2022-07-20. “He firmly believes that his department was defamed by the unruly media and a biased federal investigation. Although the FBI concluded that the shooting was justified, the Justice Department’s review of the Ferguson police force under Jackson’s leadership found a pattern of unconstitutional conduct aimed at the city’s African-American population.”
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Richard Hudanick, Kimberlie M. Straatmann, Michael Miller, Andrea Harper, Joshua White (2019-05-25). An Exploration of Trust in Community Leadership Contexts. University of Missouri. Retrieved on 2022-07-20.