A spokesman for the Ferguson Police Department was placed on unpaid leave after reportedly making dismissive comments about a memorial for Michael Brown, the 18-year-old black man who was shot and killed by white Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson in August.
The makeshift memorial for Brown had been partly destroyed last week. When a reporter for The Washington Post asked the Ferguson Police Department about the incident, public information officer Timothy Zoll told the paper: “I don’t know that a crime has occurred. But a pile of trash in the middle of the street? The Washington Post is making a call over this?”
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The city of Ferguson, a suburb of St. Louis, said Saturday that Zoll had been placed on unpaid leave and now faces disciplinary proceedings.









