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riversedge

(70,273 posts)
Mon May 18, 2020, 01:45 PM May 2020

Tennessee software exec loses job after meme suggests pay-per-view lynching of Obama: report


GOOD GRIEF!! What is F*** wrong with people!!
I would hope that the FBI is involved in investigating this dangerous creep!


Tennessee software exec loses job after meme suggests pay-per-view lynching of Obama: report

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/05/tennessee-software-exec-loses-job-after-meme-suggests-pay-per-view-lynching-of-obama-report/
Published 22 hours ago on May 17, 2020 By David Edwards

A Tennessee software executive is reportedly out of a job over images circulating on social media that suggest he wanted to see a pay-per-view lynching of former President Barack Obama.

The Chattanooga Times Free Press reported on Sunday that Transcard, a software company in based in Chattanooga, had removed an employee who posted offensive content.

Screen shots reviewed by the paper indicated that Transcard Vice President of IT Gary Casper posted an image of Obama with a noose around his neck. The image included the hashtag #PayPerView.
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Social media accounts belonging to Casper and other executives at Transcard were said to have been recently deleted.
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Tennessee software exec loses job after meme suggests pay-per-view lynching of Obama: report (Original Post) riversedge May 2020 OP
There is a terrible group of people who are thrilled by the idea of lynching dawg day May 2020 #1

dawg day

(7,947 posts)
1. There is a terrible group of people who are thrilled by the idea of lynching
Mon May 18, 2020, 02:01 PM
May 2020

Mostly it's just memes and "jokes", but they're bolstering the racist arrogance of people like the ones who murdered Ahmaud Arbery... and the prosecutors and police who supported them.

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