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DonViejo

(60,536 posts) Tue Nov 21, 2017, 01:03 PM Nov 2017

AL Local Police Chief Suspended Over 'Sarcasm' About Jones, Child Sex Abuse

Source: Talking Points Memo

By ESME CRIBB Published NOVEMBER 21, 2017 11:28 AM

A local Alabama police chief was suspended without pay after making remarks he later claimed were “sarcasm,” accusing Democratic Senate candidate Doug Jones of inappropriately touching him decades earlier.

Killen Police Chief Bryan Hammond was suspended for 15 days without pay, AL.com reported, after posting on Facebook that “silence is consent.”

“On another note, Doug Jones fondled me on a Boy Scout camping trip in 1978,” Hammond wrote in a comment, according to AL.com. “I wasn’t gonna say anything, but I just couldn’t stand the thought of him being a senator. I was ok with it until now. By the way, you can’t see me right now but I’m crying as I type this.”

Hammond told AL.com in a phone interview that none of his claims were true and that he was joking. “That was sarcasm,” Hammond said.

Read more: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/alabama-local-police-chief-suspended-over-child-molestation-sarcasm

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AL Local Police Chief Suspended Over 'Sarcasm' About Jones, Child Sex Abuse (Original Post) DonViejo Nov 2017 OP

I thought even conservatives knew this matt819 Nov 2017 #1

They can't do comedy nor can they properly run a country except into the ground! justhanginon Nov 2017 #3

Yeah. Hilarious. Saviolo Nov 2017 #2

But, but, but we are supposed to always believe the victim. n/t rzemanfl Nov 2017 #4

15 days without pay? He should be forced to cough up significantly more than that. Thor_MN Nov 2017 #5

Why does he still have a job? procon Nov 2017 #6

Is this in addition to the 15 days suspension that he got maxrandb Nov 2017 #7

+ 1000000 kwalter66 Nov 2017 #8

matt819

(10,749 posts)

1. I thought even conservatives knew this

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Tue Nov 21, 2017, 01:05 PM

Nov 2017

Conservatives can't do comedy. Nature or nurture? Probably both.

justhanginon

(3,290 posts)

3. They can't do comedy nor can they properly run a country except into the ground!

Reply to matt819 (Reply #1)

Tue Nov 21, 2017, 01:12 PM

Nov 2017

Saviolo

(3,282 posts)

2. Yeah. Hilarious.

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Tue Nov 21, 2017, 01:07 PM

Nov 2017

This guy should go on comedy tour with Ann "I'm a comedian" Coulter and Mike "Funniest Guy in his Parish" Huckabee. They're all laugh riots.

rzemanfl

(29,565 posts)

4. But, but, but we are supposed to always believe the victim. n/t

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Tue Nov 21, 2017, 01:17 PM

Nov 2017

Thor_MN

(11,843 posts)

5. 15 days without pay? He should be forced to cough up significantly more than that.

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Tue Nov 21, 2017, 01:26 PM

Nov 2017

Jones is a public person, but this was admittedly false and done with malicious intent, IMO. Of course, my opinion has just about no value whatsoever.

procon

(15,805 posts)

6. Why does he still have a job?

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Tue Nov 21, 2017, 01:38 PM

Nov 2017

He holds a position of power and authority, but he can't even control his personal prejudices and political biases to do his job without lying.

maxrandb

(15,334 posts)

7. Is this in addition to the 15 days suspension that he got

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Tue Nov 21, 2017, 01:48 PM

Nov 2017

for saying that "silence is consent" when it comes to rape?

So is he up to 30 days now, or did they just lump all the stupid, racist, misogynist shit he's posted into ONE 15 day suspension.

and people wonder why I fantasize about how fucking great this country would be if we had just never allowed the confederate states back in the Union after the Civil War.

kwalter66

(80 posts)

8. + 1000000

Reply to maxrandb (Reply #7)

Tue Nov 21, 2017, 01:58 PM

Nov 2017

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