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San Diego Council Aide Suspended For Comments About Protesters
LATimes ^ | December 13, 2013 | TONY PERRY

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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1 posted on 12/13/2014 10:55:20 AM PST by Steelfish
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To: Steelfish

You kiddin me?

Give that lady a raise, a pearl necklace and one week, with spa, at the Hotel Coronado.


2 posted on 12/13/2014 10:59:21 AM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: Steelfish
for referring to police-conduct protesters as idiots and suggesting - in jest - that she wanted to shoot them.

She is simply voicing what millions of rational people think. Both parts.

3 posted on 12/13/2014 11:00:07 AM PST by Balding_Eagle (The Gruber Revelations are proof that God is still smiling on America.)
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To: Steelfish
Thou shalt not insult the looting criminals peaceful protestors.
4 posted on 12/13/2014 11:02:44 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.)
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To: Steelfish

Wrongthink is swiftly and severely punished in the new Amerika.


5 posted on 12/13/2014 11:04:17 AM PST by SpaceBar
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To: Vendome

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.


6 posted on 12/13/2014 11:04:20 AM PST by lee martell
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

insulting idiots IS a peaceful protest


7 posted on 12/13/2014 11:05:17 AM PST by morphing libertarian (Defund , sue, impeach. Overturn Obamacare, amnesty.)
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To: Steelfish

Her mistake was the notion of shooting them.


8 posted on 12/13/2014 11:07:41 AM PST by mylife
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To: Steelfish

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?


9 posted on 12/13/2014 12:06:18 PM PST by Oliviaforever
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