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Lt. Bob Kroll, the head of Minneapolis police union, blamed transgender people for the citys budget woes in an interview with STIM radio host Maxwell Thomas Silverhammer.
Kroll has presided over a nationwide implosion over the rampant racism and police brutality evident in the force and his role in covering it up after the murder of George Floyd, an unarmed Black man, by a white officer. In a letter to members, Kroll described Floyd as a violent criminal and protesters as a terrorist movement.
The politicians are to blame and you are the scapegoats, he wrote.
During his time on the force, Kroll has been involved in three police shootings and racked up at least 20 internal affairs complaints. There have also been numerous lawsuits against him and the city alleging he used excessive forces and racial slurs.
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This asshole just can't keep his bigoted mouth SHUT!
Eliot Rosewater
(31,131 posts)mercuryblues
(14,547 posts)about not being able to use a degrading sexist slur, while commenting against bigotry and racism.
Tipperary
(6,930 posts)Interesting, hmm?
Eliot Rosewater
(31,131 posts)But, I can see that level of understanding wont happen around here, so sigh...
dsc
(52,169 posts)just like a fag in the UK at least is a cigarette but you hopefully aren't agitating to use that word.
mercuryblues
(14,547 posts)Yeah and it is NOT a racist slur, the word and way I want to use it...ask the rap artists. So sigh...
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,899 posts)He's thrown up roadblocks against all such attempts by a whole series of mayors and police chiefs for years.
Mike 03
(16,616 posts)or should I say a piece of s#$t, even by police union standards.
UncleTomsEvilBrother
(945 posts)...is obviously dangerous to Black citizens, yet he is allowed to stay in his position. I don't wonder at all why the riots are less than peaceful.
Solly Mack
(90,792 posts)Piece of shit.
cayugafalls
(5,646 posts)Nothing changes in a system with people like him in leadership.
Nothing.