Two Police Officers Fired After Facebook Post About Shooting AOC

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - JANUARY 19: Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New York's 14th district Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez attends Women's March 2019 on January 19, 2019 in New York City. (Photo by John La... NEW YORK, NEW YORK - JANUARY 19: Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New York's 14th district Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez attends Women's March 2019 on January 19, 2019 in New York City. (Photo by John Lamparski/Getty Images) MORE LESS
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Two Louisiana police officers were fired after posting and liking, respectively, a Facebook caption about shooting Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY).

The chief of the Gretna Police Department in Louisiana said that Charles Rispoli and Angelo Varisco had violated the force’s social media policy, according to the New York Times.

“This vile idiot needs a round…and I don’t mean the kind she used to serve,” Rispoli originally posted along with a fake article claiming that Ocasio-Cortez said that soldiers are paid too much.

Chief Arthur Lawson called the episode “an embarrassment” to the department.

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  1. First:

    Gretna

    Explains a lot.

    And second:

    Two Louisiana police officers were fired

    That’s something, I guess.

  2. To serve and protect. Yeah.

  3. It is something. The first statement was that it would be handled internally, but the end result not made public. They weren’t going to fire them.

  4. I’d like to know if they get hired to be officers elsewhere. That happens.

    I used to live in Greta for the year my wife clerked in the 5th circuit. Walked my dogs on the levee multiple times per day. Was the nicest part of living there. I loved those walks.

    We lived just a few blocks from a tiny remnant of the Algiers internment camp, which I used to show visitors (when you live in New Orleans, everyone you know visits), as an anachronistic horror from days of yore. NOLA has lots of those.

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