GOP Rep. Retracts Video Promoting U.S. Military From Auschwitz Gas Chambers

The video that was published to YouTube Saturday — and has since been removed

Too late.

A foot-noted snippet of his Wiki bio

Higgins served in the Military Police Corps of the Louisiana National Guard for six years.[1][2] He then worked as a manager of a car dealership in Opelousas, Louisiana. He left the job in 2004 to become a reserve officer for the Opelousas Police Department. After serving in the department for four years, he resigned in lieu of accepting disciplinary action for his striking of a handcuffed suspect before spending the next three years working for the Port Barre Police Department. He joined the St. Landry Parish Sheriff’s Office in 2011. When the office’s public information officer was reassigned in October 2014, Higgins succeeded her in the role and was promoted to captain.[3][4]

As public information officer, Higgins made videos for Crime Stoppers. He began by using standard scripts in his first weeks, but then began to highlight various criminals by name.[5] His videos went viral, and he was referred to as the “Cajun John Wayne”.[1][6] One of his videos was featured on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon in 2015.[5] He resigned from the St. Landry Parish Sherriff’s Office in February 2016 because of the public outcry against one of his videos.[7][8] In March 2016, he was sworn in as a Reserve Deputy Marshal in Lafayette, Louisiana.[9]

The former deputy of St. Landry Parish Sheriff’s Office[10] resigned in lieu of being fired for making controversial statements after the Sheriff warned him against using disrespectful and demeaning language toward the public. The Sheriff ordered him to “Tone down his unprofessional comments on our weekly Crime Stoppers messages”[11], underlining “a growing undertone of insubordination and lack of discipline on Higgins’ part”[12]. The Sheriff also took issue with Higgins’s misuse of the St. Landry Parish Sheriff’s Office’s badge of office for personal profit and gain, citing Higgins’s fully uniformed appearance with his marked patrol unit in a commercial for Acadian Total Security as well as its use in the sale of t-shirts and shot glasses from Higgins’s personal website. In an investigative article published in Salon it is revealed that "He also negotiated paid speaking appearances with other police departments. In one email, Higgins discussed his request for a speaker’s fee that included shopping money for his wife and part of the fuel for his friend’s private plane[13]. Clay Higgins had previously worked for the Opelousas Police Department but also resigned under allegations of unprofessional and unlawful conduct. The Opelousas Police Department’s Discipline Review Board found that “Clay Higgins used unnecessary force on a subject during the execution of a warrant and later gave false statements during an internal investigation. Although he later recanted his story and admitted to striking a suspect in handcuffs and later releasing him”. Clay Higgins resigned before disciplinary action could be imposed.[14]

Two things rise to the top in Southern Louisiana: cream and bayou scum.