A policeman in Gretna, Lousiana made a Facebook post last week suggesting that Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) should be shot.
The Times-Picayune reported this weekend that police officer Charlie Rispoli had posted a threatening message about Ocasio-Cortez, who used to work as a bartender, on his Facebook page.
“This vile idiot needs a round…and I don’t mean the kind she used to serve,” Rispoli wrote in a caption above a fake article headlined with “Ocasio-Cortez On the Budget: ‘We Pay Soldiers Too Much'”
The cop seemed livid about the article, even though the site Taters Gonna Tate describes itself as a “satire” website and Ocasio-Cortez has never said that soldiers get paid “too much.”
Gretna city police chief Arthur Lawson told the Times-Picayune that the post, which has since been deleted along with Rispoli’s Facebook page, “will not go unchecked.”
“I’m not going to take this lightly and this will be dealt with on our end,” Lawson said. “It’s not something we want someone that’s affiliated with our department to make these types of statements. That’s not going to happen.”
“Whether you agree or disagree with the message of these elected officials and how frustrated you may or may not get, this certainly is not the type of thing that a public servant should be posting,” he continued.
However, Lawson said that any punishment Rispoli may get for the post will not be made public.
The incident highlights how several members of law enforcement have taken to social media to smear the progressive congresswoman.
Earlier this month, ProPublica exposed a secret Facebook group made up of over 9,000 former and current Border Patrol officials featuring with racist and misogynist memes of not only migrants, but Ocasio-Cortez as well. One image depicted the congresswoman having sex with a migrant, while another portrayed President Donald Trump forcing her to give him oral sex.
Ummmm… Pretty sure anything less than firing is inappropriate here.
How can the public trust that he’s going to treat them at all fairly in a traffic stop or other interaction when that’s what he spews on his own time.
There need to be zero tolerance policies regarding hate speech and threats for people with badges and guns who literally get to make life-and-death choices as a matter of their job.
My reaction exactly. Also problematic is the “fake news” post – even though it was meant as satire – but that doesn’t alter the fact that nobody in the position of protecting the public and entrusted with the force of arms to do it should be suggesting murder as a solution to political positions you disagree with. Rispoli needs to be gone from the Gretna police force immediately if not sooner.
Remember the woman who flipped off trump’s motorcade while riding her bike. She got a photo of it and posted it in her Facebook page. She was then fired. (don’t know if she received justice and got her job back).
This is much… very very much… worse.
Appears to be a case of IOKIYAR, or a cop or… essentially, it’s ok as long as not a liberal or colored or Muslim.
I’m sure he’ll get a stern talking to. Isn’t that enough? /s
Inciting violence is a feature not a bug of the GOP plan to make the next presidential election a referendum on the proposition that “Pro-White Racism is a necessary response to Anti-White Racism,” the latter term being a myth that a surprising number of people turn out to believe in.