Cop suspended over 'All Lives Splatter' meme posted after Seattle protester killed by driver
Source: WaPo
Hours after a car slammed into a demonstration on Interstate 5 in Seattle on Saturday, killing one protester and severely injuring another, Mike Brown, a detective with the King County Sheriffs Office, allegedly shared a meme on his Facebook page.
All Lives Splatter, it read, over a drawing of a person flying over the hood of a truck. Get your a-- off the road.
Brown, who has been a police officer for more than 40 years, has now been suspended as the department investigates that post and other offensive content on his Facebook page, King County Sheriff Mitzi G. Johanknecht said.
On Wednesday, the driver accused of hitting the protesters, Dawit Kelete, 27, was charged with vehicular homicide, vehicular assault and reckless driving, while relatives of 24-year-old Summer Taylor, the protester he allegedly killed, held a tearful news conference to describe the activists deep commitment to the Black Lives Matter movement and other causes.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/07/09/summer-taylor-detective-meme-suspended/?utm_campaign=wp_main&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social
Evolve Dammit
(16,747 posts)Chemisse
(30,813 posts)I don't think he is up for 'serving and protecting' the public with that attitude. I hope they fire him.
Paladin
(28,266 posts)His career ought to be over.
dalton99a
(81,534 posts)LiberalFighter
(50,981 posts)PaulRevere08
(449 posts)we need to defund and demilitarize our police departments. Every mayor should be demanding that the departments remove all military gear immediately.
DFW
(54,415 posts)It sounds like an egg whose rot has been concealed for far too long.
Bluepinky
(2,275 posts)Suspending with pay hardly seems like a punishment.