By Justin Gardner Ferguson, MO — During recent protests commemorating Michael Brown’s death, the St. Louis County Police Department updated its strategy in the emergency operation’s center (EOC). A host of police and fire officials from different departments were busy monitoring chat rooms, tweets and video on social media, while sharing updates by police radio.
They plunged into the online force that has been so successful at exposing corruption and violence in their own ranks.
One of the people involved in that social media operation was Vera Cully, hired by St. Louis County to oversee their social media accounts in November 2014. The county did …read more