Updated: 5:06 PM CST March 4, 2021
ST. LOUIS COUNTY, Mo. The home of an officer assigned to the St. Louis County and Municipal Police Academy was recently photographed with the officer’s marked take-home police car in the driveway next to a Three Percenters flag.
5 On Your Side obtained a photo of Officer Michael Coletti’s home with the group s flag flying underneath an American flag in his front yard. His marked police car was parked in the driveway just feet away.
The flag reads: “When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty.” It also includes the Roman numeral for three in the middle of the flag with the year 1776 written underneath it. Thirteen red stars representing the 13 colonies also adorn the flag.
Negligent and irresponsible | Acting St. Louis County Council Chair blasts police board
Rita Days sent a letter to commissioners criticizing them for rewarding the police chief and being too close to County Executive Sam Page
Credit: St. Louis County Police Department Author: Christine Byers (KSDK) Updated: 9:59 AM CST February 11, 2021
ST. LOUIS COUNTY, Mo. Acting St. Louis County Council Chair Rita Days sent a scathing letter to the Board of Police Commissioners this week, calling its members “negligent and irresponsible in their own appointed duties.”
“My hope was that you would recognize the need for strong leadership at this time and you would deliver,” she wrote in the Feb. 9 letter obtained by 5 On Your Side. “I am no longer confident that you can do either.”
Dispatcher investigated for using racial slur over police radio no longer with department
ST. LOUIS COUNTY, Missouri (KMOV) A St. Louis County dispatcher, who sources said is the brother-in-law of Chief Mary Barton, is no longer employed with the department after broadcasting a racial slur over the radio to dozens of on-duty police officers earlier in the month.
A St. Louis County Police spokesperson said the employee was working as a dispatcher when he said the N-word while dispatching a call on Jan. 9. He was immediately removed from the radio and relieved of his duties, police said. An investigation was then launched to examine the incident.
Dispatcher accused of using racial slur related to St. Louis County police chief
The police union, membership organizations and commanders have called for the dispatcher to be fired while the chief recused herself from the investigation Author: Christine Byers (KSDK) Updated: 11:30 PM CST January 10, 2021
ST. LOUIS COUNTY, Mo. A St. Louis County police dispatcher who has been accused of using a racial slur to refer to a Black sergeant on police radios Saturday is related to Chief Mary Barton, according to a source familiar with the investigation.
The department has confirmed the dispatcher in question has been suspended, and an internal investigation is underway.