fired cop thinks it is ok to call black people monkeys

[Liberal_in_LA]

NEWS & POLITICS
Fired Florida Police Officer With History of Violence Says Calling Black People 'Monkeys' Isn't Racist
This idiotic hater is a real a credit to his profession.


The Lee County Sheriff’s Office in Florida fired a member of the force for posting overtly racist comments on his Facebook page, on which he listed the police department as his employer, a local NBC affiliate reports. Now, he’s going to the media to make a case for his behavior.

“According to an internal affairs report,” the news outlet writes, “Deputy Jean Lopez was fired in April for posting racial comments on his Facebook page.”

In March, Lopez posted a video of a black man talking about the company he owns. The deputy’s accompanying commentary: “Can someone please tell me what the [expletive] this monkey is saying?”

Lopez went on: “Get a real life [expletive] monkey.”

Police investigators report that, while Lopez says he and his friends refer to black people as “monkeys” in social settings, “he would never use the term in uniform.”

http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/fired-florida-police-officer-history-violence-says-calling-black-people-monkeys

[AuntPatsy]

1. He deserved to be fired,

[daleanime]

4. Hell yes....

[uponit7771]

2. If this is what he's saying public I doubt that he's nicer in private. This is the LEO culture that

... thinks it's ok to murder those they're supposed to serve

[backscatter712]

3. When Florida Man has a badge... n/t

[TerrapinFlyer]

5. Deserved to be fired...

and now nationally known as a stupid redneck.

Quite the accomplishment, I wonder if they have a skill badge like that on LinkedIn.

[awoke_in_2003]

6. I suppose he wouldn't be upset...

at someone calling him a greaser.

[BlueJazz]

7. She is an idiot. We're Apes not monkeys

[1StrongBlackMan]

8. And, of course, the journalists at the station tested/proved ...

ex-deputy Lopez's "not racial" theory by searching and posting the 1,000s of ex-Deputy Lopez's posts wherein he referred to non-Black people "monkeys" ... right?

[okaawhatever]

9. Not his first rodeo:

This isn't Lopez's first time being investigated at work. According to NBC2, Lopez was involved in a 2014 shooting that was the subject of an investigation; he reportedly mishandled a suspect's money in 2008; and in that same year he was “arrested but not charged for threatening to kill his wife,” according to NBC2.

http://www.theroot.com/articles/news/2015/05/florida_officer_jean_lopez_fired_for_referring_to_a_black_man_as_a_monkey.html

[lpbk2713]

10. Indicative of how out of control they are.

They don't feel they should be accountable to anyone for anything they say or do.