KGO-TV freelance producer fired after suggesting police shoot Oakland protesters

[Newsjock]

Source: San Francisco Chronicle

A freelance producer at KGO-TV was given the ax after he sent out inflammatory tweets aimed at Oakland protesters, including one Saturday suggesting police shoot demonstrators, the station said Sunday.

“A freelancer sent inappropriate tweets from his personal account that in no way reflect the views of ABC7,” the TV station said in a statement. “This freelancer is no longer associated with the station.”

... The producer, identified Sunday as Carlos La Roche, used the now-deleted account @producerlos to tweet, among other things, that police should use “real bullets” on demonstrators, during Saturday night’s march to protest Mayor Libby Schaaf’s policies to limit what she say are unlawful demonstrations.

... In one since-deleted message, La Roche asked Oakland police if it could be “open season on protesters,” and in another from November, he asked if “maybe we can recruit some Ferguson police to put down those animals in Oakland,” according to images of the tweets posted by Keys.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/KGO-TV-freelance-producer-loses-job-over-6284539.php

[haikugal]

1. WTF...what's going on in this country? nt

[okaawhatever]

2. What a repulsive individual. One good thing that has come from social media is the unemployment

that befalls hateful bigots like him.

[Solly Mack]

3. Sicko

[nadinbrzezinski]

4. I wish I could even pretend half a surprise

really.

This does not surprise me in the least. As to why? What is going on in this country at present, why it no longer surprises me.

[daredtowork]

5. That's a non-starter idea from Libby Schaaf

Limiting the ability to protest is never the way to handle what you don't like about protests. She should take a look at how that was perceived in Spain. Her temporary protection of middle class property will be bought at the price of perception of fascism, and the suspicion of "suppressed authentic feeling" is likely to be expressed through some big stunt rather than minor vandalism - and the damage could be on the scale of that dam that was taken out in Fremont. That cost a year's worth of water in a drought because, in all likelihood because some people didn't feel heard.