Arizona Cop Investigated Over Bullet-Riddled Picture of Obama
The Secret Service is investigating an Arizona police officer over a picture he posted on Facebook that appeared to show President Barack Obama riddled with bullets.
Peoria's Sgt. Pat Shearer admitted to KNXV that he took the photo of several young men -- possibly minors -- posing with guns and an Obama "Hope" T-shirt that had been destroyed by gunfire. The photo went viral after Shearer posted it to his Facebook page.
"Another trip to the ranch," read the caption on the photo, according to Phoenix New Times. Comments on the photo included, "Damn it feels good to be a gangsta," and, "They look like Gangsta's huh?"
Two of the young men are holding what appears to be assault rifles and another is sporting a pistol.
"I don’t think that the shooting of that T-shirt is that big of a deal," Shearer said. "It was more of a political statement."
"It’s not like they were going to go out and shoot the president," he added.
The officer has since removed the offending photo from his Facebook page.
"We received information about a possible policy violation today involving one of our employees," Peoria Police spokesman Jay Davies told KPHO. "We were contacted by the Secret Service."
Peoria police are investigating whether Shearer violated their social media policy, which says, "posting information regarding off-duty activity that may tend to bring an officer's reputation into question is strongly discouraged."
Shearer has been with the department for 14 years and remains on duty.
and i don't mean the kind he envisioned for the president, i mean out of a job. this is not free speech. insinuating that we now have an imperial presidency? headed by our most beneficent emperor obomber? (peace be upon him), that's free speech.
actually, considering that the cops are basically the spearhead of an increasingly repressive society? gangsta pretty much fits the bill.
in AZ is legal? Or maybe that's no problem as long as they're supervised by a fine, upstanding citizen like Officer Dickwad here....
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
just about any pro gun law in AZ is legal, just ask Gabby Giffords. It's a shame that a state who a year ago nearly had one of their state legislators murdered by a gun, that an officer sworn to uphold the law would be teaching kids shit like this.
Conservatives, nothing surprises me.
is intended to be a factual statement
It would only be note worthy in AZ if it happened to a Republican.
It's one thing to do something extremely stupid but then to record it on film and post it on the net is even more stupid. I mean I swear, the human brain seems to be shrinking in some areas.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
"posting information regarding off-duty activity that may tend to bring an officer's reputation into question is strongly discouraged."
It could, however be subject to some interpretation.
"We strongly advise against letting the people know you are a total dumbass unless your reputation aleady encompasses that fact. Then you are just doing the social media equivalent of calling for back-up."
I am sure his public employee union representative will make just such an argument should disciplinary action ensue.
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
One thing for damn sure, he does not have the mental capacity to be a gun carrying cop. However he might be useful if they tied a mop handle to him and stuck him out in the corn field to scare crows away.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
to schoolchildren as part of President Newt's character building and ghetto language expulsion program. By his second term the earth should be restocked with mop handles made by our moon colony.
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
Wasn't there a time when the right wingers called liberals "moon bats"? Damn we Obamabots were so ahead of our time.
Your comment about calling for backup made me laugh.....seriously!
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
Say, what is this place gonna do without Republican debates to fill the threads
with fresh punch lines.
I know some think targeting Obama with another round of skeletal or scrotal descriptions is intellectually satisfying, but for us Bots things will get stale.
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
This dumbass is a police Sergeant?? He obviously thought this was a cool idea influencing a bunch of teen boys with guns to "exercise their free speech" by "just making a political statement" shooting a likeness of the President of the United States. Shearer is probably still regaling in the limelight among his like-minded racist buddies, but it won't be so cool if he ends up pushing pencils at a desk or in the unemployment line. This guy isn't even fit to be a crossing guard!
Shearer stupidity!
"It’s not like they were going to go out and shoot the president," he added.
It's all fun and games until the FBI uncovers a plot by a psycho somewhere.
Vote GOP and move forward to the 18th Century.
Then it's just another isolated incident.
LOL!
Psycho is the word, indeed.
Could you imagine this nazi pulling you over? Especially if you didn't have your papers?
This guy should be terminated immediately - from his job.
If I were a psychopath, I would join the republican party, and get in on the gravy train taking the Teabircher morons to the cleaners.
Arizona?
Your move, South Carolina.
Vote GOP and move forward to the 18th Century.
I'm just waiting for one of these fascists to take a shot at the President. All bets are off when that happens. They'll finally get the civil war they've been hoping for. These people deserve EVERYTHING they have coming to them.
..will not travel the path you think it will.
If a right winger ever takes a shot at Obama, immediately our right wing media (in other words, our media) will blame Obama's "radicial, militant rhetoric" for coercing this poor soul into doing the unthinkable.
If Obama was just less radical with this rhetoric, & if his policies just weren't so far to the left, & if Obama wasn't so good at stirring up the crazies for his own political purposes, then this unfortunate incident would have never happened.
Everybody reading this knows this will be the spin if any right winger ever attempts to assassinate Obama.
Our media will blame Obama & paint the shooter as the victim.
When Fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in excess body fat & carrying a misspelled sign.
doncha know?
When will government of the people, by the politicians, for the corporations perish from this Earth?
Not soon enough!
The media can react however they want. I'm more interested in the way actual PEOPLE will react. I firmly believe that a vast majority of Americans getting really close to being fed up with these right-wingers...the kind of "fed up" where fists start to fly.
We are the silent majority. The week before the election, I'm going to put an Obama 2012 sticker on my car. I just hope that no one tries to start something that they're not willing to finish.
They're the ones that need to worry, not vice versa.
You are right.
I have told several wing nuts recently, that I can't wait for the civil war to start, so we can stop these GOP fascist idiot dupes of the fascist oligarch's, from destroying our country any further.
They are absolutely stunned and speechless to hear people are sick of them.
If I were a psychopath, I would join the republican party, and get in on the gravy train taking the Teabircher morons to the cleaners.
They already did this and he was a white Irish Catholic
We'll throw in Texas as a package deal.
The Mexicans don't want it back since the Gringos fucked it all up.
If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you're gonna get selfish, ignorant leaders.
George Carlin
.. from when the US occupied the northern half of Mexico ..
.. in another illegal war started with a false flag operation ..
.. (so says US Grant who witnessed it) ..
When will government of the people, by the politicians, for the corporations perish from this Earth?
Not soon enough!
...getting tired of these 5 words: "The Secret Service is investigating."
Virtually everytime a right wing sociopath terrorizes with a gun, or uses a picture to terrorize, or terrorizes a Democratic political headquarters or liberal church, or runs assassination smack on a messageboard, we always get: "The Secret Service is investigating."
The Secret Service isn't doing shit.
Obviously, the Secret Service has a cavalier attitude concerning this type activity.
Otherwise, these nutjobs could cut this crap out.
When Fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in excess body fat & carrying a misspelled sign.
The Secret Service needs to do less "investigating" and more "head breaking" when it comes to these people.
What do you want them to do?
Pepper spray, mace and hand cuff them after a thorough beating?
It's not like they are pacifist hippie's protesting Wall Street's rape of America.
If I were a psychopath, I would join the republican party, and get in on the gravy train taking the Teabircher morons to the cleaners.
I seem to remember several incidents during the reign of Duhbya where people were fucking arrested for wearing t-shirts vaguely critical of the President. Here you have these freaks taking actual shots at images of the president, and it's "Oh, no big deal, nothing to see here".
If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you're gonna get selfish, ignorant leaders.
George Carlin
I don’t think that the shooting of that T-shirt is that big of a deal," Shearer said. "It was more of a political statement."
"It’s not like they were going to go out and shoot the president," he added
So what sort of statement is it you're making when you're shooting holes in a picture of the President? Cops aren't supposed to be making political statements. For that alone he should kiss his badge, his gun, and his pension good-bye. And I won't even get into what a racist motherfucker this clown is, as evidenced by the "gangsta" cracks on his facebook page.
If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you're gonna get selfish, ignorant leaders.
George Carlin
Democracy Now:
Jewish Times Publisher Resigns After Writing Israel Should Consider Assassinating Obama
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dO7ij1yV3mU
When will government of the people, by the politicians, for the corporations perish from this Earth?
Not soon enough!
Considering that Obama has been bending over backward for Israel, that's pretty fucking astounding.
If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you're gonna get selfish, ignorant leaders.
George Carlin
Yes, but he refuses to get on his knees and polish Israel's knob like his predecessors. To the Likud wackos, that's a relationship ender.
I don't believe in God. Teach a man to be a good citizen and you have solved the problem of life.
-Andrew Carnegie
Anyone with a modest level of reading comprehension could tell that. Or so I was advised on another thread about another comment.
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
when I gave you the benefit of the doubt regarding your reading and comprehension skills, they are fine. Your affliction is more along the lines of being a disingenuous giant douche nozzle.
CTHULHU 2012 "Why vote for a lesser evil?"
sensitivity of "a goddam toilet seat."
Here. Bone up on the first couple of centuries before February:
http://www.lkwdpl.org/wihohio/jaco-har.htm
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
Nowhere in my post did I mention Obama directly (or indirectly), since what I wrote was clearly directed towards the content of the post to which I was replying, that means you are the one who has gone out of his way to associate "slave" and "plantation" with Obama. Not me.
Lacking any sort of argument, as usual, you have to resort to this type of crap.
Keep digging little one, keep digging...
CTHULHU 2012 "Why vote for a lesser evil?"
investigation for an incident at the Phoenix airport where she pointed her finger at President Obama.
"We determined that the while the Governor may have been loaded, her finger was not" said a Spoxperson for the Treasury Dept. subunit.
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
I have relatives who live in the Phoenix area. That is one fucked up part of the country. I went along to a gun show at the fairgrounds with my brother-in-law. Holy shit! Crazy motherfuckers walking around with all manner of ordnance. They sure were suspicious of me, too. I was wearing a San Diego Padres baseball hat which marked me as an outsider of course. Every one of those assholes had to make some snide comment about California. Craziest thing I saw while I was there was some idiot on a Harley on the freeway with some big ole hogleg strapped on his hip and no helmet. As someone who worked in a major trauma facility for over twenty years I was astounded. I just hope Arizona has an organ donor program.
I just hope Arizona has an organ donor program.
Yeah, they scour the highways for table scraps after the latest crash.
"Hey, Joe! Run over there and see if that shirt still has an arm in it."
Vote GOP and move forward to the 18th Century.
you gotta go the the human parts show. It is on the other side of the fairgrounds.
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
Donorcycles all came with a free DNR tatoo for the forehead.
An E.D. doc of my acquaintance once referred to a motorcyclist without a helmet as an "organ donation opportunity waiting to happen".
In my limited experience, E.D. docs seem to often have an interesting combination of high compassion and low tolerance for stupidity. And a really rough sense of humor.
Seems to me the organ that Harley rider needs is a brain.
but brains. Obviously, theres too few funtional ones in Az.
"Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing." -- Robert E. Howard
And he took a picture of it the dumb fuck.
CTHULHU 2012 "Why vote for a lesser evil?"
Yeah, was he channeling Nixon? Where's Rosemary Woods when you need her.
Vote GOP and move forward to the 18th Century.
You can burn the President in effigy (I don't recommend it). You can burn the American flag (I don't recommend it). You can arm with semi-automatic weapons and allow them to fire shots of a t-shirt with the President's likeness on it (I don't recommend it). You can put a photo of your idiocy up on Facebook (I don't recommend it.)
You can do all of these things (I don't recommend it), but don't expect me to cry tears for you when someone else objects.
Election 2012: Be Educated! Be Active! Vote!
www.PhoenixJustice.com
You CAN do all those things. But dont you DARE get caught with some weed on you. We all know the dangers of weed. /snark
Back during the bu$hCo. days, I used ro draw devil horns on pictures in the newspaper of bu$h and Rumsfeld and Cheney - to amuse myself on the bus- but I didn't show them to others. And it did feel good.
true story
far left loon >.<
Interesting how whenever one of these stories comes OUT the individuals are ALWAYS WHITE as SNOW.
and having been born in Tucson, all I can say is "skin cancer".
If someone on the left would have done this to a picture of a republican the right would be all over this like flies on a fresh pile.
Nice picture of the cream of Arizonas white youth.
I guess those boys are following the lead of Mitt Romneys kids, serving over here IS the modern Conservative idea, god knows none of these hyper patriots would think of serving in the military.
Nah...no big problem. Just blowing up an image of the President. Just "fun and games". What a complete moron. I can't believe this pig is still on the force. At the least, I'd say encouraging youth to engage in a "trophy activity" like this is dispicable. What a complete moron. A good repukkke!
"It’s not like they were going to go out and shoot the president," he added.
"We just masturbate to the idea three or four times a day, you know normal stuff." Shearer continued..
These fuckers are going to act out and some poor innocent is going to get hurt for just standing in the wrong place.
They're obviously proud of their 'accomplishment.'
me-oww!
because the picture was "snapped" by a policeman the television stations cannot be sure the participation of all involved was voluntary. Maybe some of both?
But they're fucks, so who gives a rats patoot.
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
And if a left-leaning citizen had done the same thing to a Bush/Cheney photo back during that presidency, that person would STILL be in Gitmo today, after having been picked up during a 3am rendition mission.
Anybody else find it hilarious that these lick the scrotum of pro-corporation, anti-regulation Republicans but one of them quotes 'Office Space'?
...unless you remember "Dallas"...
Ignorance is parent to religion.
Religion is parent to Hate.
Remembering Matthew Shepard:
http://vimeo.com/fuksnickityClam/matthew
Sterling US citizens such as these across the nation are allowed representation in Washington, D.C. and I'm not?
And I live in Washington, D.C.
Yeah -- fat, white, uneducated gangsta's [sic]
In the spirit of fairness, I am going to remove the photos of my George W. Bush urinal cakes from my Facebook page.
i hate to assume, knowing nothing about the blurry faces, but i guess that this merry band of t-shirt killas are viscerally outraged when the scenes from the middle east of people burning american symbols in effigy.well, guess what my gangsta friends: you just did the same thing.
for a cop to use the image of a real person or target practice or a practical or a "political statement" should cost the cop his badge and have the SS put him on the "you can't own a fire arm" list.
It is illegal to threaten the POTUS, clearly the pig broke that law.
Doing it's damndest to prove it's dumber than Texas.
"Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing." -- Robert E. Howard
Arizona hates America.
NOBODY 2012
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