Soros-backed district attorney ‘tried to break the system’ by putting police on an ‘exclusion list’, official says

A retired St. Louis, Missouri, homicide detective says he was one of many officers placed on an “exclusion list” by a district attorney that prevented him from doing police work and forced the system to “collapse.”

Roger Murphey, who left the police force in 2021, said he had to ask other officers to produce documents such as warrants and subpoenas for him after George Soros-backed District Attorney Kimberly Gardner placed him on the infamous ‘ exclusion list’.

Murphey said a social media post by him criticizing Gardner’s soft approach to crime contributed to his being placed on the list.

It is believed that around 75 police officers could be on Gardner’s list, preventing them from bringing cases to his office and fulfilling the scope of their law enforcement work. They are also gagged for talking about the list.

Gardner addressed the infamous list in 2019, arguing that they were officers who had credibility issues and whose “integrity is compromised.” The prosecutor did not provide further details.

Gardner, who was endorsed by billionaire George Soros in her election, has come under increased scrutiny for her approach to prosecution in St. Louis.

‘The system collapsed, completely collapsed. The police did not break it down. Kim Gardner broke it down,” Murphey told Fox News Digital.

Murphey said that all he could do was sit there “collecting dust and just collecting a paycheck” as the “exclusion list” prevented him from carrying out his police work.

‘Then what good am I here to the citizens? So I said, okay, I’ll go back to hand over my papers,’ Murphey said.

The St. Louis Police Pension Board noted that 819 police officers have left Gardner’s department since the district attorney joined the office in 2017. Between 2017 and 2019, an average of 119 police officers left the department each year.

In addition to not being able to submit police documents, some cases are closed outright if an officer on the list is deemed to be an essential witness. If Gardner’s office believes the key officer lacks integrity and is biased, the case may not be brought for prosecution at all.

“This was a political effort by her (Gardner), it had nothing to do with bias,” Murphy told Fox News Digital.

‘If it was true, if it was biased, then take me before a judge, show me proof that I’m biased, and she hasn’t done that. If I’m biased, why did you have to have a secret list? Because I’m not biased. Why was the order given not to talk about it? No transparency.

He added: ‘I’ve been here 26 and a half years. Open all my cases. Take it forward. Why aren’t you reopening these cases? And the simple answer is because he is lying.

“And it was a political stunt because she wanted fewer police officers on the force, fewer arrests, and that made arrests go down.”

Murphey said he was placed on the list because of two social media posts, one of which criticized the district attorney and her approach to prosecuting crime. The retired officer said Gardner would “cut him out” if he openly criticized her.

He has very fine skin. She is a very superficial person, in my opinion. And everything was, we are not going to imprison and we are not going to put anyone in jail. Well, that’s not what police departments are made for. We were created to provide protection for citizens,” Murphey told Fox News Digital.

The list was created in 2018 after the Philadelphia-based Plain View Project studied thousands of Facebook posts from St. Louis officers.

Some of the posts were found to display the Confederate flag, suggesting Black History Month was racist, supporting mistreatment of protesters, and mocking foreign accents.

Addressing the list in 2019, when 22 officers were “blacked out” for their social media posts, Gardner said in a press release: “When the integrity of a police officer is compromised in this way, it compromises the entire system. of criminal justice and our general ability to pursue justice.

“After careful examination of the underlying bias contained in those social media posts, we have concluded that this bias would likely influence an officer’s ability to perform their duties impartially.”

Gardner is one of many liberal lawyers to whom George Soros has invested millions.

Soros has effectively financed the campaigns of district attorneys across the country to implement a liberal vision of criminal prosecution.

He has spent at least $40 million on the project, wrote Matt Palumbo, author of The Man Behind the Curtain: Inside the Secret Network of George Soros.

As a direct result, crime has skyrocketed in major cities overseen by Soros’s district attorneys. In 2021, under the reign of Kim Foxx, Chicago had the most murders since 1994. And in Philadelphia, drug use and violent crime have seen an increase since Larry Krasner took office.

Kimberly Gardner received about $116,000 from PACs backed by Soros and his Vera Institute of Justice.

On his watch, murder in St. Louis is a maximum of 50 years and fewer and fewer serious crimes have been prosecuted.