Posted on 12/13/2014 10:55:20 AM PST by Steelfish
San Diego Council Aide Suspended For Comments About Protesters By TONY PERRY
A San Diego City Council member has suspended a staffer without pay for two weeks for referring to police-conduct protesters as idiots and suggesting - in jest - that she wanted to shoot them.
The comments were made after a council meeting Wednesday in which two dozen protesters indicated opposition to the decisions by grand juries in Ferguson, Mo., and New York not to indict white police officers in the deaths of two unarmed black men.
Children in the group wore black sweat shirts with the phrase: "Don't Shoot."
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You kiddin me?
Give that lady a raise, a pearl necklace and one week, with spa, at the Hotel Coronado.
She is simply voicing what millions of rational people think. Both parts.
Wrongthink is swiftly and severely punished in the new Amerika.
It was just a suggestion, not a recommendation. Maybe not the best time for it though, with reporters sniffing for anything to paint these “protesters” (aka attention whores) as victims again.
insulting idiots IS a peaceful protest
Her mistake was the notion of shooting them.
Where are we as a country if government officials cannot exercise their First Amendment Right to threaten to shoot citizens who are exercising their First Amendment Right to protest?
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