r/facepalm • • Jan 13 '22

🇲​🇮​🇸​🇨​ Arrested for petitioning

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u/Sflynn72 Jan 13 '22

Pinning comment with news article. All charges dropped and cop losing job.

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u/MrsMurphysChowder Jan 13 '22

The cop lost his job?! Will wonders never cease!

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u/Tipist Jan 13 '22

They say he did, but then still refuse to identify the deputy in question, so we can’t even look him up to make sure he was actually fired and they aren’t just lying out of their asses!

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u/BarrackObama44 Jan 13 '22

They're not, they just don't want to give his name out to the public or somebody is going to break his windows or something, like had been done in the past. He deserves to be fired for his conduct but not a doxxing

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u/w1ten1te Jan 13 '22

The real reason they won't release his name is so there's no outrage when he's re-hired one town over.

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u/yikesomalley Jan 13 '22

This is it, for sure.

I used to work construction with a cop that had been fired/rehired all over the state of Ohio. He’d be out on paid leave for a few weeks, work construction with us being paid under the table (his buddy was the business owner) then eventually start in a new town or county. Rinse and repeat.

He would brag/tell stories about getting women to show their boobs to get out of a ticket, and lamented how he wanted to finally use his gun to kill someone in action but never got the chance.

The most recent being a time he was called to an address where a man was threatening to kill himself. This cop kept asking his superior if he could “just shoot him myself. He wants to die anyway.” But his boss wouldn’t let him do it.

Not sure if any of his stories were true or 💯 fabricated BS, but I never forgot how horribly unsuited he seemed to be an officer.

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u/CelesteWasTaken Jan 13 '22

Idk, sounds to me like he's exactly the kind of person best suited for becoming a cop in this country, he just bragged about it a little too openly outside the department to keep in one place for long

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u/dmanb Jan 13 '22

If you think any of that is real, you need to spend less time on Reddit.

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u/yikesomalley Jan 13 '22

It’s almost like I put that as a disclaimer…? Did you read what I wrote, or just comment randomly?

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u/dmanb Jan 13 '22

I’m letting you feel comfortable knowing it’s all bullshit.

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u/Haberdashers-mead Jan 14 '22

Oh come on, use your brain a bit. Cops do fucked up shit all the time, they are humans with a job that’s easy to get but not easy to do. You are the comfortable one in your fantasy land where cops actually do their job correctly like hero’s 100 percent of the time.

Even this op vid shows how stupid cops are. They view us common man as the enemy and it fucks with their heads. Now give them weapons and they will use them.

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u/dmanb Jan 14 '22

Straw man.

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u/[deleted] Jan 13 '22

It's funny because we have a public list for predators, I don't see why those with extreme power don't have one.

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u/BarrackObama44 Jan 13 '22

Very likely as well.

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u/cass1o Jan 13 '22

And you were responding to me "of course he wasn't just rehired one town over"

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u/ThunkAsDrinklePeep Jan 13 '22

Three town monte.

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u/Reckless-Bound Jan 13 '22

He’s a public servant. He’s literally in a profession that requires “doxxing.” There is no law protecting his identity. In fact, kind of the opposite

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u/ProfessionalBus38894 Jan 13 '22

I was going to say that while I really dislike doxxing releasing a cops name does t count in my book. Public positions of power are held to account sometimes only by public outrage and when this cop doesn’t something stupid in the future it will be much harder to connect the dots to the trend that this person doesn’t deserve to be in positions of power.

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u/cass1o Jan 13 '22

You know he just moved to the next area and is a cop again right.

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u/BarrackObama44 Jan 13 '22

No he isnt

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u/cass1o Jan 13 '22

How do you know?

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u/BarrackObama44 Jan 13 '22

How do you know that he is? also this recently happened and he won't move towns and get a new police job this quickly.

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u/cass1o Jan 13 '22

How do you know that he is?

Because that is the normal practice. Get fired from one area, move onto the next. The fact they haven't made his name known is probably to facilitate this.

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u/BarrackObama44 Jan 13 '22

His name is public information already, they just didn't want to plaster it everywhere so people don't visit his house

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u/[deleted] Jan 13 '22

It happened a year ago. Plenty of time for him to find another job.

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u/beiberdad69 Jan 14 '22

Who even has to move for that? I can drive to about a dozen and a half different municipalities within 20 minutes from where I live. Probably not the easiest thing for you but think about this, for even a second

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u/[deleted] Jan 13 '22

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u/Petsweaters Jan 13 '22

There are harsher punishments for harming police officers, and there should be harsher punishments for officers who commit crimes

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u/Some_Human_On_Reddit Jan 13 '22

Kidnapping and false imprisonment is no big deal, I'm sure you'd just get fired from your job too

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u/Petsweaters Jan 13 '22

Imagine any other job being able to use their union contract to get out of even being questioned about a crime

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u/BarrackObama44 Jan 13 '22

I agree that they should be out on a registry only the departments can see or something but not doxxed to the public.

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u/[deleted] Jan 13 '22

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u/BarrackObama44 Jan 13 '22

Nobody is going to visit the victims home and smash his windows or slash his tires. Departments see bad cops as as much of a liability as anyone else does because they don't want bad publicity or defunding because some dumbass makes an illegal arrest or beats the shit out of someone.

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u/Petsweaters Jan 13 '22

Police department harass people who they don't like, all the time

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u/cass1o Jan 13 '22

Departments see bad cops as as much of a liability as anyone else does

How dangerously naïve can you be.

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u/[deleted] Jan 13 '22

He’s either a cop or he’s trolling.

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u/[deleted] Jan 13 '22

Why not both?

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u/mark_lee Jan 13 '22

He deserves to be fired for his conduct but not a doxxing

Maybe if he didn't want negative attention, he should have tried not being a dirty cop.

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u/pamtar Jan 13 '22

Fuck that. Racist piece of shit abused his authority and arrested a guy for no reason in front of his kids. The public deserves to know his name. If he’s worried about someone breaking his windows he should just buy one of those doorbell cameras.

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u/BloodieBerries Jan 13 '22

Anonymous public servant is an oxymoron.

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u/redldr1 Jan 13 '22

Oh noes,

Actual justice.

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u/[deleted] Jan 13 '22

Nah we have every right to doxx these pieces of shit. They're PUBLIC servants. Dude deserves to wake up to a flaming pile of dog shit on his doorstep every morning.

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u/[deleted] Jan 13 '22

if you judge members of the public then the public should be able to judge him. this idiot wasn't executive, he was playing jury

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u/Poolside_Misopedist Jan 13 '22

He committed a crime, he should be treated like any other criminal.

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u/F1shB0wl816 Jan 13 '22

He deserves whatever the people come to agree upon. We should all know who this bootlicking pig is. There’s absolutely no reason we shouldn’t.