Seattle city to pay $1.5 MILLION to ex-assistant police chief who posted Nazi rank on his door and joked about the Holocaust after bungling disciplinary process

Daily Mail ^

[algore]

Seattle must be a hotbed of Nazis ?

I guess that kinda makes sense, if I assume they all voted for Jay Inslee

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

He said he adopted the nickname 'Obergruppenfuhrer' after colleagues began referring to him by the German name that translates into 'senior group leader. Kammerzell claimed that at the time he hung the image, he didn't know it was a Nazi rank and instead thought it represented his position as a high-ranking cop with German lineage.'

Uh huh. That "fuhrer" part didn't ring a bell? I'm guessing that outside of Gesundheit, that is one of the more commonly-known German words among people who don't speak German.

[marktwain]

Fuhrer just means "leader" or "guide" in German.

But, it has been strongly associated with Hitler.

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

Right, and most people wouldn’t know about it without its connection to Hitler.

[marktwain]

So? This politically correct stuff has gotten way out of hand.

[Carriage Hill]

[algore]

I don’t know about that.

I have known people who put german words like Fahrvergnügen on their cars.

I am feeling some angst cause maybe they were Nazis and I never knew it ?

[algore]

[simpson96]

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

I think a grown man in a position of public responsibility who makes Nazi references and jokes about the Holocaust at work is a little off. It has nothing to do with political correctness. It has a lot to do with common decency and having enough brains not to make a spectacle of himself by his light-hearted association of himself with one of the great criminals of history.

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

There is a difference between Fahrvergnügen and Fuehrer.

When Dr. Strangelove, at the end of the movie, rises from this wheelchair and says, “Mein Fuehrer! I can valk!” I think everyone gets the reference.

[mac_truck]

Probably thought no one besides another Nazi would recognize the insignia.

[Alvin Diogenes]

This isn’t actually Seattle. Kent is about half an hour south of Seattle.

The problem in Seattle isn’t Nazis; it’s the crazy woke, the socialists, the anarchists, and the fellow travelers.

[PLMerite]

[Seattle must be a hotbed of Nazis ?]

"I hate Seattle Nazis."

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

Still a stupid and tasteless thing to do.

MM -Holocaust wiped out all our family in what is now LVIV/LVOV - Ukraine

[BobL]

Probably thought he was still in Ukraine.

[stormhill]

The problem in Seattle isn’t Nazis; it’s the crazy woke, the socialists, the anarchists, and the fellow travelers.

Yeah, right; like there's a difference

[Alvin Diogenes]

"The problem in Seattle isn’t Nazis; it’s the crazy woke, the socialists, the anarchists, and the fellow travelers."

Yeah, right; like there's a difference

They're both reprehensible (even equally reprehensible) but there is a difference. At least around Seattle, the Nazis are very small in number and are not represented in government. In contrast, the crazy woke appear to be a majority of the population and nearly 100% of the local government officials; they're the ones that are destroying our society.

The new mayor has moved a little bit away from crazy woke toward very liberal (which actually is some kind of improvement).

[Carriage Hill]

Very stupid and tasteless.

[moovova]

"Schutzstaffel Opergruppenfuhrer"

Love those pastries! Does it come in cherry filling...or just apple?