Virginia state Del. Hyland “Buddy” Fowler Jr. (R) used a photo of a menacing police dog in a Facebook post aimed at Baltimore protestors, Raw Story reported on Tuesday.
In the post, Fowler joked about whether police dogs would quell the violence in Baltimore, which broke out during protests over the case of Freddie Gray, a 25-year-old black man who suffered fatal injuries while in police custody.
“I wonder if a few of these would help bring calm to Baltimore?” Fowler wrote in the post.
The comment appeared above a photo of a snarling, teeth-bared police dog that had the caption: “Go ahead and run. He likes fast food.”
The post was reported by the website Blue Virigina on Tuesday.
The post did not appear on Fowler’s Facebook page when TPM looked on Wednesday, and Raw Story suggested it may have been deleted.
Fowler has not released a statement about the photo and did not respond to Raw Story’s attempts to contact him.
Fowler, via his website, said he’s up for reelection as he seeks a second term in the Virginia House of Delegates.
Because there’s absolutely NO negative history regarding police dogs and the black community in any sort of nasty Bull Connorish kind of way.
The thing is, Republicans think this is a funny joke.
Had the same thought to post some iconic photos of the civil rights movement in the south where they used dogs routinely to put down protestors. This Bagger needs a fucking lesson in history…and then they need to boot his sorry ass out of office on ethics charges. He has no business pretending to be a public servant, and I don’t care how ‘mighty white’ his constituents are.
They didn’t seem to work all that well 50-some years ago, Buddy.
Anybody with a nickname that sounds like the younger brother who’s always tattling on you should never be regarded as having anything to offer.
Well, if the police dogs were trained to attack the police, I could see this working.