Officer investigated for Facebook post about harming Black Lives Matter protesters

http://www.reviewjournal.com ^ | January 19, 2016 - 10:12am | By Ed Payne and Christine Sever

[redreno]

Police in St. Paul, Minnesota, have put an officer on leave while investigators try to figure out if he's responsible for a Facebook post urging drivers to run over Black Lives Matter protesters on Martin Luther King Jr. Day — and how to get away with it.

"Run them over. Keep traffic flowing and don't slow down for any of these idiots who try and block the streets," said the post attributed to RM Roth. "Since they are trying to block the street and/or cross where there is no crossing you should not be charged with anything."

Andrew Henderson saw the Facebook post early Saturday and brought it to the attention of police, CNN affiliate WCCO-TV reported.

"It's really concerning to me that someone would encourage violence on a day celebrating a man who taught peace," Henderson told the station.

The police department says it's investigating.

[Gaffer]

Get a verified warrant and discover the origin of the actual post. Then proceed how you will. Supposition and conjecture does not a conviction make.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Sickening. Just sickening.

I have gone directly to Facebook senior management with evidence of a CRIME IN PROGRESS, being committed on their website. I was ignored.

Apparently only politically incorrect offenses draw their attention.

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

The officer has resigned.

[Blue Jays]

Facebook has removed countless conservative-leaning posts made by friends. Some have even had accounts deleted.
One will never hear that Mark Zuckerberg is silencing the voices of far-leftists.
My advice to people is this: Hold some aspects in reserve. Don't put your WHOLE life in their data-sharing program.

[cuban leaf]

He’s right. There are no crosswalks there. I’ve creamed a pedestrian pretty good with my car. I was not the least bit legally at fault, nor did I have to worry about any civil procedings.

When you walk onto a road, which is designed for cars, and there are no crosswalks, don’t be surprised if you get hit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtrMOvUtLJk

But doing it on purpose is beyond immoral.

[I want the USA back]

Unacceptable post. Calling for violence is wrong. Now how about going after the BLM crowd which actually DOES violence against normal people?

[V_TWIN]

Just more reasons I don’t do social media. I have an email account and do FR and that’s it. little do some people know you can live without f/b, twitter etc. and life does go on. When it gets manipulated like this?.....I think I’ll pass.

[joshua c]

why do conservatives keep funding bigbrotherbook?

[IYAS9YAS]

He's right. There are no crosswalks there. I've creamed a pedestrian pretty good with my car. I was not the least bit legally at fault, nor did I have to worry about any civil procedings.

I used to ride the bus to work. Our stop was at a pedestrian crossing. There were four lanes of traffic there (all going one-way), and a crossing light.

I can't remember if the light flashed yellow and then red, or just yellow. Either way, once it was flashing, the drivers were supposed to come to a stop for the pedestrians.

Now, most of us pedestrians weren't jerks. There wasn't a lot of traffic there, but enough to warrant a crossing light. Most of us would wait for the bulk of the traffic to pass before hitting the button (maybe 15-20 seconds, max). We had one asshat who would immediately get off the bus, run over and hit the button, then scream at cars that couldn't stop on a dime for driving through the crosswalk. He was a candidate for ugliest hood ornament, and all of us would have backed the driver.

Yes, we had the right-of-way with the crossing light and crosswalk, but you have to give drivers a chance to stop, too.

[Resolute Conservative]

Anyone that uses Farcebook deserves what they get. Anyone with sense would avoid it like a dinner date with Barry Soetoro.

[Polynikes]

Ahh those pesky Russians. Apparently they don't have a very good ability to calculate timing as when you should cross a road. Its almost as if the phrase “ Look both ways before crossing” doesn't translate into Russian. The drivers aren't much better.

I wonder how much Stoli figured into the equation on both sides.

[cuban leaf]

I’ve watched a lot of those videos. They are about 50/50 driver and pedestrian fault.

Many of them are blatantly obvious fatalities, but most of those seem to be the pedestrians’ fault. I still feel bad, though. We all make mistakes. It’s a shame that sometimes they can be fatal.

I think these videos should be shown in drivers’ ed class.

[cuban leaf]

And I’ll bet that if he was hit most of you would have supported the driver in court. ;-)

[IYAS9YAS]

And I'll bet that if he was hit most of you would have supported the driver in court. ;-)

Yes. We would have. He was a jerk. He even slapped the side of a car with his briefcase one time. Nothing came of it, but we all yelled at him for doing it. We told him it takes a few seconds to stop at 40 MPH, which is what the speed limit was on that stretch, but he wouldn't hear of it. He figured when the light was blinking, he had the right to cross, regardless of physics.