Posted on 05/05/2021 6:42:48 AM PDT by hiho hiho
A Bend Police Department officer will be investigated for allegedly violating policy by wearing a keychain connected to a far-right group while in uniform on Saturday.
Bend Chief Mike Krantz did not identify the employee, though Cpl. Josh Spano is the officer seen in a photograph circulating on Reddit and Facebook. Attached to the front of Spano’s service vest is an item reading “molon labe” in Greek lettering, a phrase associated with the far-right Three Percenters militia.
The “molon labe” item and its letters appear to be larger than Spano’s name tag on his vest.
“I’m aware of the allegations posted around social media regarding one of our employees displaying an item that was inconsistent with our uniform, an item believed to be supportive of extremist ideologies” Krantz told The Bulletin.
Spano, 35, told The Bulletin the item in question is a keychain he has used while on duty throughout his 13-year career. He said he wears it to honor the oath of enlistment he took when he joined the military, and his fellow soldiers. He said before the recent uproar, no one had ever said anything about it.
He denied being part of the Three Percenters or any other anti-government group.
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the purge continues
“Extremist ideology” my Irish ass. It’s Greek for “come and take them,” a reference to the 2nd Amendment.
Woke lib dipsh*ts.
It isn’t right or left, it’s right or wrong. We are right, they are wrong.
So,the ancient Spartans are now a far right group?
It’s a quote from King Leonidas during the battle of Thermopylae when his 300 Greek warriors held off tens of thousands of Persians for days.
“a phrase associated with”
Ignoramuses imputing associations where they don’t exist is going to cause a lot of harm. This is happening way too often.
The phrase is far older than, and used far outside, the “III%ers”.
It is a political slogan in defense of the 2nd amendment.
More thought police nonsense. You WILL say and think correctly or be punished!
And yet, BLM and Antifa garb is perfectly ok to display.
This whole woke crap is not going to end well. So sick of this B.S.
Its historical Greek phrase you idiots!!!!!! When Xerxes asked Leonidas to hand over their weapons and shields, the Spartan King told him to “come and take them”. FFS, we are a nation of idiots.
This is the very first time I have ever heard of a group called the three percenters.
“Using the English language has been associated with far-right extremism. Everyone now required to speak Esperanto.”
Makes as much sense as anything else spouted by the Left these days.
Amerika: Fascist State.
Nowhere do the three percenters call themselves a militia or anti government. Only the SPLC and the MSM call them that.
As China Joe Potato Head Biden says of ANTIFA, "they are only an idea. C'mon man."
Leave it to the Democrat/Communists and their MSM sycophants to describe patriots as right-wing extremists,
militia and anti government.
Investigated? And if they find out that he supports the 2A and the Bill of Rights in general, and respects America’s founding principles, and (gasp) voted for Trump, will he be fired? Odds are, yes.
“far right”
Is there no other kind?
LMAO
What law did he break?
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