Posted on 09/16/2019 4:31:09 AM PDT by qaz123
TULSA, Oklahoma – A Tulsa Police officer who just graduated from the academy a month ago is out of a job because of questionable posts on Facebook.
The department received a complaint about Officer Wayne Brown’s Facebook posts Wednesday morning. The decision to release him didn’t take long. He was fired an hour later, News 9 reported.
According to police, he goes by Duke Brown on his Facebook page. A community action group found the posts dating back to 2013 and took screen shots of them. Tulsa Police called most of the memes posted as questionable
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Was he "personnel" 6 years ago, when he put up the posts? Not sure where he expressed bias, either. Reads to me like a textbook example of the government abridging Free Speech
Reason 873 that I don’t do Facebook.
Do candidates have to pass a psych eval? If so and the guy passed, then those memes are not a prob. And I found the hippy one a hoot.
Note to the department: Good luck finding decent applicants after this.
And note to the the law abiding there: Good luck, folks. Yer gonna need it.
The police and teachers are public servants so I do not have a problem with fully vetting them. However, we must absolutely no longer allow and cannot allow private companies to do this. We are long overdue for a law preventing employers from searching or viewing their employees and prospective employees social media. This needs to be enforced with very steep fines for violations when discovered.
I found the “hippy” one lifetime-disqualifying for any position in law enforcement.
I wonder what demographic profile is the status of the complainer?
Stay off all forms of social media where you can be identified. You are not going to get even a minute of fame except negative. Infamy.
What seems ‘ok’ now might come back to bite you in the future.
Good luck staffing your department.
Unless you pass the DNC speech test you cannot work in gummit.
will the A.C.L.U. take up his case”
Ok it is a joke of course.
Seems to me that somebody ought to be looking into the “community action group”.
I find it ridiculous that people are being fired because of something said 6 years or a lifetime ago. People change and form new opinions over time. Just another argument for the dissolution of social media.
Just one more vector on the “Axis of Evil”. The police can’t recruit people now. It ain’t gonna get better. Wait until they start sending the police out to grab the Red Flagged guns. There basically won’t BE police out there any longer. Take a country with a decimated, demoralized police force, throw in 30 million uneducated illegal aliens with a tendency to violence and a Brown SHirt Media that screams “Racist” at any perceived insult and “conservative” politicians that rush to do their bidding with every opportunity and you have one hell of a recipe for violent chaos which a small group of people seem willing to spend $Billions to achieve.
Sue
Oh, fer cryin’ out loud, I’ll betcha there isn’t a man on the force who hasn’t done worse. Buncha hypocrites.
If I were a cop in that jurisdiction, I’d be applying elsewhere.
AMEN!
I’d really like to see those memes...
> Reads to me like a textbook example of the government abridging Free Speech <
I’m not a lawyer. And I don’t play one on TV. But I don’t think this is a Free Speech violation at all. The Bill of Rights is meant to protect you from government oppression. It is not meant to protect your job from an angry employer.
For example, suppose I’m a city employee, and I post on Facebook that the mayor is an idiot. Maybe a contract would protect me from being fired. But the 1A would’t.
But the 1A would protect me if the mayor tried to have me arrested for what I said.
(If I’ve got this wrong, I hope some legal eagle will correct me.)
Tulsa is well on it’s way down the toilet.
It’s a $hithole city with a faggoty Republican Mayor who kisses every minority’s a$$.
If they keep this up eventually there will be no cops. The country will be on their own and that is dangerous.
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