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Thought Crime: School Principal Reassigned For Defending Police Officer in a Comment on Facebook
Townhall.com ^ | June 11, 2015 | Katie Pavlich

Posted on 06/11/2015 9:00:33 AM PDT by Kaslin

There's a war on cops going on and there's also a war against those who dare to defend them.

In case you've missed it, there's yet another controversy over how police handled a group of rowdy teenagers at a pool party in McKinney, Texas. After repeatedly asking a young black woman to leave the area, a white police officer (because every time a white police officer does anything to a black person it's racist, you know) threw her to the ground in an attempt to conduct an arrest. When two of the woman's male friends ran up behind the officer, he took his weapon out of his holster and pointed it at one of them. 

The officer says he made a mistake and acted inappropriately. His police chief agrees. The officer has since resigned and apologized for his actions. There are many sides to the story and plenty of opinions about what happened to go around. 

One person who had an opinion in favor of the officer, North Miami Senior High School Principal Alberto Iber, no longer holds his principal position and has been reassigned after writing a supportive comment, not even a whole post, on Facebook (That's right, in Miami, a city thousands of miles away from McKinney). From the Miami Herald:

The principal of North Miami Senior High School inadvertently injected himself into the racially charged national debate over police treatment of blacks with a social media comment — and it wound up costing him his position at the school.

The Miami-Dade County school district announced Wednesday that Alberto Iber had been removed as principal after going online to defend a white Texas police officer who waved a gun at black teens while responding to a call about an unruly pool party.

In a brief statement, the district said employees are required to conduct themselves, both personally and professionally, in a manner that represents the school district’s core values. The district said a replacement would be named shortly and that Iber would be reassigned to administrative duties.

The incendiary comment that required Iber's reassignment? 

“He [the officer] did nothing wrong. He was afraid for his life. I commend him for his actions,” Iber wrote in a comment.

Support the police? Pack up your office, you're done. End of Discussion.

Miami-Dade County Superintendent Alberto Carvalho is calling Iber's comments insensitive.

“Judgment is the currency of honesty. Insensitivity — intentional or perceived — is both unacceptable and inconsistent with our policies, but more importantly with our expectation of common sense behavior that elevates the dignity and humanity of all, beginning with children,” Carvalho said. 

Observing an officer was afraid for his life is insensitive and takes away the dignity of humanity? Commending an officer for wanting to protect his life is insensitive? What's unacceptable is essentially firing someone for making a harmless comment on social media about what's become a national issue and story.

This concept of punishing those who don't tow the "proper" narrative or hold the correct viewpoints through job loss or public shaming and harassment has become a problem in many areas of American society. My colleagues Guy Benson and Mary Katharine Ham just wrote a book about it, End of Discussion, and detail how this type of mob thought rule is terrible for the country.

Preventing "insensitive" comments is the new intolerance.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Florida; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: albertocarvalho; albertoiber; endofdiscussion; facebook; firstamendment; florida; mckinney; miami; police; poolpartycrashers; texas
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1 posted on 06/11/2015 9:00:33 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

When will people learn that farcebook and the other idiot social media sites are not your friend?


2 posted on 06/11/2015 9:04:02 AM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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To: Kaslin

Only those living off investments, retirement, etc. are really free in this country to share their views.


3 posted on 06/11/2015 9:04:34 AM PDT by cuban leaf (The US will not survive the obama presidency. The world may not either.)
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To: Resolute Conservative

Thing is, his comments were completely innocent, and yet it still cost him his job.

Nobody I work with is a facebook friend, and my facebook is pretty locked down regarding who can view it. It’s not leak free, but someone really has to want to see it to find out what I’m saying.


4 posted on 06/11/2015 9:06:13 AM PDT by cuban leaf (The US will not survive the obama presidency. The world may not either.)
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To: cuban leaf

I simply don’t use it at all for any reason.

L


5 posted on 06/11/2015 9:07:19 AM PDT by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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To: Kaslin

There is no freedom of speech. You can lose your job for what you say.


6 posted on 06/11/2015 9:08:45 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country.)
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To: I want the USA back

Maybe Facebook is a portal for entrapment.


7 posted on 06/11/2015 9:10:20 AM PDT by Jane Long ("And when thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek")
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To: Kaslin

The principal did not deserve to lose his position, but it does not appear that he was fired. For him, that is worse than being fired as he has less cause to sue.

There is also the case of Tracey Allbritton who may have called the police in McKinney and was suspended from her job.


8 posted on 06/11/2015 9:13:01 AM PDT by Oliviaforever
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To: Kaslin
"Insensitivity — intentional or perceived — is both unacceptable and inconsistent with our policies"

How was the comment insensitive? What this district is saying that someone cannot comment on any issue whether the news of the day or political because there is always someone who may disagree with your position.

9 posted on 06/11/2015 9:15:50 AM PDT by circlecity
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To: Kaslin
Now he should run for School council. Christians should take over the schools
like the LibTards have done over the past 40-years.
10 posted on 06/11/2015 9:16:39 AM PDT by MaxMax (Call the local GOP and ask how you can support CRUZ for POTUS,)
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To: circlecity

Those who fired him should also be fired for being insensitive to him by firing him.


11 posted on 06/11/2015 9:17:35 AM PDT by MaxMax (Call the local GOP and ask how you can support CRUZ for POTUS,)
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To: Kaslin
The newest class of petty tyrants is the educational community.

Where else can a six year old get suspended for hugging his classmate? Or chewing his bread into the perceived shape of a gun? There has been a myriad of examples where some have been punished simply for having an opinion. Of course, that opinion wasn't "Correct" to the liberal dogma expected.

If you read all the stories of early Nazi Germany, it is full of low level civil servants given absolute power...and abusing it.

12 posted on 06/11/2015 9:19:37 AM PDT by pfflier
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To: Lurker

I use it because all of our family is in other states. We stay in touch with the kids, the grandkids and the siblings. Not to mention that we have friends scattered all over the country.

It’s WONDERFUL for that. A godsend, frankly.


13 posted on 06/11/2015 9:19:44 AM PDT by cuban leaf (The US will not survive the obama presidency. The world may not either.)
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To: pfflier
Where else can a six year old get suspended for hugging his classmate? Or chewing his bread into the perceived shape of a gun?

It was a Pop Tart! The very word "Pop" is a microagression suggestive of high caliber automatic weapons! Does anyone really need to own a "Pop Tart"?

14 posted on 06/11/2015 9:40:14 AM PDT by Flick Lives ("I can't believe it's not Fascism!")
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To: Kaslin

There is a war against America’s former society and the current action against the police is merely one aspect of said war. The covert war(to date) is by the “Third World” against Western Civilization.


15 posted on 06/11/2015 9:44:47 AM PDT by AEMILIUS PAULUS
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To: Resolute Conservative

Right after they learn not to consent to searches.


16 posted on 06/11/2015 9:55:25 AM PDT by TurboZamboni (Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.-JFK)
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To: Kaslin

Will the Miami-Dade school system now start producing scholars with this change? Nothing of any value has come out of that system in many years.


17 posted on 06/11/2015 10:05:16 AM PDT by armydawg505
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To: MaxMax

“Those who fired him should also be fired for being insensitive to him by firing him.”

He was not fired.


18 posted on 06/11/2015 10:14:33 AM PDT by Oliviaforever
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To: MaxMax
Now he should run for School council. Christians should take over the schools like the LibTards have done over the past 40-years.

Here's the problem:

Most people don't understand the purpose of the local school board. It is to represent the taxpayers. Since they are ignorant of this, they tend to vote for educators because it seems like the logical thing to do.

Here's the solution:

Tell this to as many people as you can. Get good people from all walks of life to run for these positions. Get out there and support them. Go door to door. It will work, but it will take time. Be patient.

19 posted on 06/11/2015 10:28:13 AM PDT by bankwalker (In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.)
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To: Flick Lives
Oh no! I have a box of pop tarts in the pantry. The box is capable of holding more than 10 tarts too.

I guess I better get rid of them before the local school askes if we have them in the house.

20 posted on 06/11/2015 10:28:51 AM PDT by pfflier
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