HuffPo | He resigned from St. Louis city police under a cloud of suspicion.
Missouri tried to make sure he couldn't walk the beat. But one officer
with a history of allegations of hitting children found a willing
employer in the Ferguson Police Department.
The saga of Eddie Boyd
III underlines the troubles surrounding Ferguson's tiny police force,
which has been engulfed in controversy ever since one of its officers
shot 18-year-old Michael Brown on Aug. 9.
In a city where the
killing of an unarmed black teenager by a white cop has revealed
profound racial tensions, Boyd's story represents an anomaly: he is one
of just three African-American police officers in a department of 53.
But that doesn't mean he's an exception in other ways. Citing Boyd and other examples, critics claim that Ferguson and the St. Louis area in general have serious problems with police accountability.
