FERGUSON, Mo. — The Ferguson Police Department has suspended a spokesman after he referred to the Michael Brown memorial as “a pile of trash.”
A statement that the city provided Saturday to KMOV-TV didn’t identify the officer who made the remark. The Washington Post attributed the comment to Officer Tim Zoll.
The memorial at the site of Brown’s death was damaged last week after a car apparently hit it.
Zoll doesn’t have a listed number and couldn’t be reached Sunday by The Associated Press.
The city says the spokesman denied making the comment to his supervisors, but later admitted that he’d misled his bosses.
He has been placed on unpaid leave while “disciplinary proceedings” begin.
City officials said the remarks “do not reflect the feelings of the Ferguson Police Department.”
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