2 police officers fired over social media posts, lawyer says

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    St. Louis (KMOV) — Two St. Louis Metropolitan police officers have been fired over social media posts, their lawyer told News 4.

Officers Thomas Mabrey and Ronald Hasty are appealing their terminations to the Civil Service Commission.

“We look forward to vigorously defending both officers’ reputations and are confident their actual records as police officers, and not Facebook shares and likes posted as private citizens will ultimately rule the day,” their lawyer, Brian Millikan, said.

Facebook posts from Mabrey and Hasty were compiled by The Plain View Project which is a database of Facebook posts and comments from current and former police officers.

Earlier this year, the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department announced they were investigating allegations that several current and former officers made racist, violent, homophobic, and anti-Muslim posts on Facebook.

In June, Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner’s office put together an “exclusion list” of 22 officers not allowed to testify in court. Of the 22, seven were permanently banned from presenting cases to the Circuit Attorney’s Office. We reached out to Gardner’s office to find out if these two officers were on the exclusion list. We have not heard back yet.

We’ve also reached out to the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department and are waiting to hear back.

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