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Disgraced judge and prosecutor Ronald Brockmeyer has resigned in majority of his Ferguson roles

A city council member raised concerns about Brockmeyer three years ago, saying he didn't listen to testimony, review reports, or allow witnesses to testify, and suggested that Brockmeyer not be reappointed. Shaw acknowledged Brockmeyer's work had issues, but said, “It goes without saying the city cannot afford to lose any efficiency in our courts, nor experience any decrease in our fines and forfeitures,” Shaw said.
The word has been out on James Shaw for years, but he truly made Ferguson and its surrounding towns so much money that it was an offer they couldn't refuse. In addition to being the lone municipal judge in Ferguson, Ronald Brockmeyer was paid separately to serve as a judge and prosecutor in four other municipalities, including lead prosecutor for Florissant, municipal prosecutor for Vinita Park, municipal prosecutor for Dellwood, and municipal judge for Breckenridge Hills
The jig is up, though.

In addition to be cited over and over again in the Ferguson report, Radley Balko of the Washington Post began uncovering Brockmeyer's harsh ways back in September just a month after the murder of Mike Brown. The Guardian then revealed that Brockmeyer, who would send people to jail for owing $100, hypocritically owes over $170,000 to the IRS.

The jig is up, though.

Brockmeyer first resigned in Ferguson. Then he resigned as prosecutor in Dellwood. The mayor also forgave all fines under Brockmeyer's recent tenure. Then he resigned in Florissant and Vinita Park. Now, his only remaining position is as a judge in Breckenridge Hills, but city officials are meeting on Monday to discuss it.

What's clear is this: Without the authority of the DOJ's Ferguson report, Brockmeyer would still be abusing citizens all over St. Louis County.

Originally posted to shaunking on Fri Mar 13, 2015 at 07:25 AM PDT.

Also republished by Police Accountability Group, Support the Dream Defenders, and Daily Kos.

Super Dave Loc: Realville, USA

Please refrain from r****t comments.

badbobby Loc: texas

it was most likely on purpose

BigMike Loc: yerington nv

True story: The city of San Bernardino CA began toying with the idea of having its own impound yard. The resulting dog and pony show would have been hilarious if it weren't such a harbinger of bad s**t to come...city officials pushed hard, giving all these plausible sounding reasons why it would be great for the people of San Bernardino for the city to have an impound yard of its own. Of course, the real deal was they wanted to confiscate as many cars as they could get away with to raise revenues. They'd already been doing so for a long time and the privately contracted impound yards they were using were running out of room! The v**ers saw through the bulls**t immediately and nixed the idea in no uncertain terms. But law enforcement and municipalities everywhere are doing this and a lot of other underhanded crap.

moldyoldy

My car got towed in Laguna Niguel, it cost me $200.00, it would have been more if I did not bail it out right away.

BigMike Loc: yerington nv

If you're broke, which is what they're counting on, you're screwed. If your car gets towed and you don't have the dough to get it immediately...cha ching! :?

moldyoldy

The impound fees keep adding up until it is too much, and your car gets auctioned off.

ghostgotcha Loc: The Florida swamps

Can we auction off Moldy? (I bid two cents...)

Any one think he is worth more?

Ps. The high bidder owns the little turkey for a week.

BigMike Loc: yerington nv

True story: While going to work one drizzly morning I was involved in an accident. I lived in Perris, CA. and worked in San Bernardino. While travelling north on the 215, heading down Box Springs grade between Moreno Valley and Riverside I had to slow very quickly after rounding a curve in the freeway because there was an accident ahead. I'd decelerated enough to let up off my brake and ease up toward the line of stopped cars. I looked in my rearview just in time to see a fellow in a large Cadillac bearing down on me. He plowed into the rear of my car, pushing me about 30 feet or so into the rear of the vehicle in front of me, which happened to be a lowered Toyota truck with no rear bumper. When CHP arrived a few moments later, the officer surveyed the scene a moment and made the pronouncement, "You hit the truck in front of you, then this man hit you!" I was floored, and I told the officer that that wasn't the way it happened. Of course, the man who caused the accident agreed with him. Better to be responsible for two wrecked cars than three. Now I realize that what the officer was doing was spreading the blame as widely as possible to insure the state could collect as much as possible. He wrote me a ticket for driving too fast for conditions. I vowed to fight it in court, and when I got home I told my wife I'd go to jail before paying a dime. Wrong! I found out they wouldn't give me a court date unless I posted "bail" which was the amount of the ticket! When I went to court I told my story and the officer told his. He'd seen the accident while passing in the other direction on the freeway. He saw the front of my car "dipping" as I braked, the amount of damage done to the truck in front of me, blah blah. So I asked him, "If I was going so fast, did you document skid marks?" No. "Do you know the curb weight of my vehicle or the condition of my springs and shocks?" No. "So the "dipping" of the nose of my care doesn't necessarily mean I was going too fast, just that I was braking?" Maybe. "I was hit very hard from behind by a Cadillac, yes?" Yes. "Even if my foot was on the brake, which it wasn't at the time, is a Cadillac big enough to push another vehicle a considerable distance?" Yes. "Was the truck in front of me lowered?" Yes. "Did it have a bumper?" No. "So basically, my car caved in it's tailgate?" Yes. "Would it take much to damage the unprotected tailgate of a lowered Toyota pickup?" No. I could tell the officer didn't like my questions and at the end I thought I'd presented my case pretty well. As soon as we were done presenting our sides the judge said "Guilty!" And I realized that justice had nothing to do with the proceeding. It was only about money.