Posted on 07/16/2024 8:37:16 AM PDT by DFG
DALLAS — "Aim better."
Those two words have put a sergeant with the Dallas Police Department on administrative leave pending an internal investigation, DPD sources tell WFAA.
A screenshot of the post shared with WFAA shows the social media post made by Sgt. Arturo Martinez.
This comes in the wake of former president Donald Trump being the target of an assassination attempt during a campaign rally in Butler, Pennslyvania. The next day, the FBI identified the shooter as Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20, of Bethel Park, Pennsylvania.
The department said it received an internal complaint on July 13 "regarding a member of the Dallas Police Department and a comment made on a social media platform."
"When I received the notification regarding the comment posted, disappointed would be an understatement," Chief Eddie Garcia said in a statement. "If in fact true, the comment made has no place in our society, and certainly no place in law enforcement.
Martinez has been with the department for about 14 years and is the supervisor of Dallas PD's robbery unit. Martinez was also the organizer of the "Blue for Black Lives Matter” demonstration where several hundred officers and protesters marched together in solidarity in the wake of the death of George Floyd.
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One might think cops with the Dallas PD would know better.
That is one dumb cop. I’m sure he was pulling cars with Trump stickers over for…anything he could think of
Scumbag of the highest order. I wonder if he will be punished at all. Bet he quietly comes back onto the force.
“Arturo” thinks he’s a revolutionary
Ballots or bullets…whatever keeps power
These leftist morons just cant help themselves.
Total lack of impulse control that is so common with them.
Another member of The Democrat Party Organized Crime Syndicate saying something he thinks his bosses in the crime syndicate will like so he can be promoted in the syndicate.
BTTT
“Back the Blue”.... or something...
This guy sounds like a commie through and through.
Indeed.
Are you kidding? Dallas is one of the wokest cities in the state, and suffers all of the symptoms of the disease of leftism. It is a reliable Democrat voting county.
Anyone who still supports the Democrats has a criminal heart, mind and soul.
They might be a friend or a coworker or a police officer or a neighbor.
It doesn’t matter.
They have a criminal heart, mind and soul.
Treat them accordingly and separate yourself from them.
The ONLY saving grace of this whole thing is that it has become a huge OUT YOURSELF! parade.
The simple fact that none of these people find anything wrong with wishing a killer had killed somebody/ anybody really seem to be lost on them.
A lot of people have family members who are more liberal. It’s hard to just stay estranged from family.
On that we can agree. I do plan on taking static screen shots of any social media posts wishing death or any harm on Trump or those associated with him.
Diversity makes us stronger.
“ Sgt. Arturo Martinez.”
Maybe he should move back south of the Rio Grande
Sgt. Arturo Martinez, born here? Or a border crosser?
If you were to quantify this on a scale of 0-100 Woke, how would Dallas Rank? How about Austin?
"...In July 2016, in downtown Dallas at a protest against the police killings of Black men. Among the dead was a close friend of Detective Arturo Martinez.
Nearly four years later, Martinez, 33, threw himself into organizing and participating in a police march in downtown Dallas to show solidarity with people who have been protesting since George Floyd cried out “I can’t breathe” and died in Minneapolis police custody. Martinez called the June 5 march "Blue Lives for Black Lives Matter."
Martinez, an Army veteran with 10 years as a police officer and the son of Mexican immigrants, received backlash for the march, including angry and racist comments on his social media feeds. But many of his police colleagues and the friends and people he knows through his part-time work as “DJ Turo” backed him.
“I’m blue and I’m a cop and I’m super proud to be a police officer,” Martinez told NBC News. “When I retire, when I’m not a cop anymore, I’m still Mexican. You get fired tomorrow, you are not blue anymore. You are done. You look as you are..."
One might think that if he said "...when I'm not a cop anymore, I'm still American..." people could get on board with that. But he didn't. He said he is a cop first, and a Mexican second.
What a flaming douchebag. Well, I look forward to him being able to ponder the meaning of the last few sentences in his quote:
""...You get fired tomorrow, you are not blue anymore. You are done. You look as you are..."
I hope he no longer looks like a cop but looks like the douchebag he is.
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