Another day and another two Trump supporters lose their jobs. When will trump supporters learn they are not above the law & hate does not pay?
Be careful about the alt-right hate posts you like idiots! One of the police officers was fired for simply liking the alt-right hate post.
"By Monday afternoon, however, Lawson told reporters that Rispoli and another officer who “liked” the post, Angelo Varisco, had been fired."
Trump supporter that threatened AOC is fired
Two Louisiana police officers were fired Monday for a Facebook post that suggested Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) should be shot.
It was not clear from the post, which has since been deleted, whether former Gretna, La., police officer Charlie Rispoli knew he was sharing a story from a self-described satire website. In response to the fake headline, Rispoli wrote: “This vile idiot needs a round........and I don’t mean the kind she used to serve,” referring to a gunshot and the lawmaker’s earlier career as a bartender.
The Times-Picayune/the New Orleans Advocate originally reported the Facebook post, and acquired a screenshot before it was deleted.
The firings comes amid a reckoning with racist and violent social media posts by police and federal law enforcement officers. As posts have been made public, firings and investigations have followed across multiple departments.
Ocasio-Cortez and three other minority freshman lawmakers dubbed “the Squad” have become frequent targets of President Trump, who said the four citizens and members of Congress should “go back” to the “totally broken and crime infested places from which they came.”
Rispoli’s comment was made in response to a post on a self-described satirical page, tatersgonnatate.com, with the headline “Ocasio-Cortez on the Budget: ‘We Pay Soldiers Too Much.’” Rispoli was a 14-year veteran of the Gretna Police Department in Louisiana.
Gretna Police Chief Arthur Lawson did not respond to a request for comment from The Washington Post. In an interview, he called Rispoli’s comment “disturbing” and probably in violation of department social media policies, but he stopped short of describing it as a threat.
By Monday afternoon, however, Lawson told reporters that Rispoli and another officer who “liked” the post, Angelo Varisco, had been fired.
“This incident, we feel, has been an embarrassment to our department," Lawson said during a news conference, according to Nola.com. "These officers have certainly acted in a manner which was unprofessional, alluding to a violent act be conducted against a sitting U.S. [congresswoman], a member of our government [and] we are not going to tolerate that.”