Broward cop who wore a QAnon patch while meeting Pence has been kicked off the SWAT team (demoted)

[fleur-de-lisa]

Jerry Iannelli @jerryiannelli 2:59 PM - Dec 3, 2018

NEW: Matt Patten, the @browardsheriff cop who wore a #QAnon patch while meeting Mike Pence, has been kicked off the SWAT team & BSO Homeland-Security squad. He was issued a written reprimand today in which BSO said it was embarrassed by the news coverage:

Link to tweet

[Initech]

1. A PLEDGE PIN???? ON YOUR UNIFORM??????

[Iggo]

4. .

[Cirque du So-What]

7. You're all worthless and weak!

[Initech]

24. "I got to work on my game."

"No, don't think of it as work, the key is to enjoy yourself!"

[yardwork]

8. Drop and give me twenty!!!

[TwistOneUp]

17. HAHAHAHA thanks for the lulz! nt

[hibbing]

22. Classic! n/t

[nolabear]

25. ...

[JDC]

31. Good one

[AZ8theist]

38. A PLEDGE PIN???!?!?!

[Initech]

39. Classic scene!

[ADX]

2. He absolutely deserves to be demoted...

...if not fired outright.

There's something inherently wrong with a SWAT officer who would knowingly and willfully affix a moto patch like that to his tactical duty uniform.

Good riddance...

[Hortensis]

13. Agree, and arming someone with a renegade orientation

with the power of the state is alarming. Passionate authoritarian followers aren't exactly among our most respectful and reliable public servants. Perhaps interviews and his record persuaded them he was more than that. Only a potential problem if his leaders themselves became nazis?

[ADX]

28. The most alarming part of the whole thing...

...is that there's no way his team mates and superiors were unaware of his leanings. He wasn't disciplined for wearing that bullshit, he was disciplined for being caught wearing it and bringing the media hammer down on his agency. There's a tremendous difference between the two...

[Hortensis]

36. Yes. They would have a more rounded picture

of him, though, and there's no telling from this what all these people thought of him. This guy's an ardent version and wears a medallion, but far more authoritarian followers live among us who don't.

They don't know about themselves that they are "we were just following orders" people capable of abandoning any notion of setting their own limits for what they'll support. What scares me is that they're so normal and common. They're "us." I've read research shows maybe roughly 20% are hard-core all the time but that those who'll join them in following a charismatic authoritarian "strong man" leader can rise toward half in frightening times.

[mitch96]

32. Knowing Broward county.....

after a couple of news cycles he'll be back with "the team"... shhhhhhhhhhh
m

[ADX]

34. I don't doubt that for one minute...

...The only problem his agency has with him is that he got caught. They don't care what he thinks or believes, they probably agree with him...

[mitch96]

43. +1

[Scurrilous]

3. K&R

[Flaleftist]

5. Someone slipped through the psychological screening process.

His department should consider another evaluation.

[Corgigal]

37. This is the answer.

Large agencies do a lot of screening, spending big bucks. I don't know if science can figure out a test for supremacy, but if it exist then law enforcement and the military should test for it.

[GWC58]

6. This guy should

not be a law enforcement officer, period! I’d hate to be the next poor soul pooled over by him, especially a person of color, or Hispanic. This man is probably not in the best of moods and may just take it out on someone. 😡

[MagickMuffin]

9. These people really are operating on very low wattage

SAD

[demosincebirth]

10. What is QAnon?

[MrsCoffee]

11. 4chan far right conspiracy theory quackery.

[fleur-de-lisa]

14. An anonymous online RWNJ conspiracy theorist

who claims to have access to classified information that exonorates Trump and the criminals who bolster him in Congress.

[TwistOneUp]

18. I'm smelling ...

An Anonymous op. E.g., Op Chanology, which was about Scientology. Perhaps Op Qology? Anons, are you listening?

[lpbk2713]

12. He's already made it to Wikipedia.

Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QAnon


He's a frikken celebrity.

[Brother Buzz]

16. Wiki is wondering about the other patch, and that lack of identification.

The battle axe and scythe, I guess. I've seen it somewhere, but I'll be damned where I've seen it beyond it being associated with a uber right wing outfit. Any guesses?



Detail from the above photo showing the QAnon patch. The identity of the black-and white patch to the left has not been established.

[TwistOneUp]

19. Perhaps ...

Perhaps the battle axe has replaced the hammer in a type of "war version" of the old ussr flag.

[Brother Buzz]

26. No, it was hammer (industry) and sickle (agriculture) from the get-go

Something is whispering in the back of my mind that the axe and scythe is somehow connected to northern European white supremacists, and that it may have a connection to Viking lore, but is very anti-communist today, not unlike the Italian fascist symbol (bundle of sticks secured with an axe handle)

[Aristus]

35. The fasces are a legitimate, non-ideological symbol for civic authority.

Dating back to Republican Rome. The symbol is displayed on the walls of the US Senate and House chambers.

The Fascists in Mussolini's Italy co-opted the symbol for their movement, but it hasn't otherwise suffered the way the once-positive symbol of the swastika has.

The fasces were bundles of birch rods tied together with red leather bands, and symbolized a Roman magistrate's power to chastise (by whipping with the birch rods). The rods also symbolized the power of collective effort. One rod is easy to snap in two. A bundle of them is impossible.

A magistrate with the power to execute had an axe inserted into his fasces as a symbol of that authority (almost always asserted outside the walls of Rome.)

[Brother Buzz]

41. Correct. Hell, it was even on the reverse of the Mercury dime

co-opted is the operative word, and hate groups have adopted it, too




Dude in the middle is James Fields Jr., is the driver plowed his Dodge Challenger into a crowd of peaceful protesters in Charlottesville, Va.

[3Hotdogs]

20. It is a patch for people who are constipated.

It depicts tools that are used to alleviate the problem.

[DRoseDARs]

23. Dollars to donuts, it's probably connected to a white supremecist group. nt

[Brother Buzz]

27. I totally agree

But it's queer that nobody knows the origin.

[dameatball]

15. Sometimes it is hard to be the first post to say "Whomp, Whomp."

I may be close.

[Initech]

21. I was going to, but thought Neidermayer was funnier!

[Johnny2X2X]

29. Dangerous

This Q Anon garbage is dangerous and has caused wackos to do some pretty deplorable things. A law enforcement officer promoting conspiracy theories gives weight to them and will get people killed.

[Pepsidog]

30. Bastard should be fired.

[shadowmayor]

33. How about

Let's get rid of all the oath keepers, 3 percenters, and the rest of the swill while we're at it!

[Gothmog]

40. Yeah

Link to tweet

[Sneederbunk]

42. The SWAT attire reminiscent of some South American army.