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72 Philly Officers Placed on Administrative Leave Amid Racist Facebook Post Investigation
NBC Philadelphia ^ | June 19, 2019 | Staff

Posted on 06/21/2019 5:39:22 AM PDT by PapaBear3625

An investigation into racist and insensitive Facebook posts allegedly made by active-duty and former police officers across the country has led to 72 Philadelphia cops being placed on administrative leave, Commissioner Richard Ross announced Wednesday.

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The posts in question were uncovered by a team of researchers who spent nearly two years looking at the personal Facebook accounts of police officers from Arizona to Florida. They found officers bashing immigrants and Muslims, promoting racist stereotypes, identifying with right-wing militia groups and glorifying police brutality.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: again; facebook; police
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Time to convince everyone you know to exit FaceBook. It is now a prime way to get into trouble at work, if you, or anyone connected to you, ever posts anything which anyone, anywhere finds "offensive".
1 posted on 06/21/2019 5:39:22 AM PDT by PapaBear3625
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To: PapaBear3625

Big Brother is watching you


2 posted on 06/21/2019 5:42:43 AM PDT by granada
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To: PapaBear3625

My prediction is that open racism makes a comeback in the general population. It’s already explicit in the black community. Most blacks just hate whites. I’m convinced of this. There is enormous racism in the black community. The white community, to a large degree, tries not to be racist. But I think people are getting tired of that charade. People want to say how they feel. And it’s not good.


3 posted on 06/21/2019 5:44:24 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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Sounds to me like Philph-adelphia is carrying out a social justice agenda and opening the city to more crime..


4 posted on 06/21/2019 5:44:30 AM PDT by newnhdad (Our new motto: USA, it was fun while it lasted.)
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To: PapaBear3625

Who funded the team of researchers?


5 posted on 06/21/2019 5:45:01 AM PDT by Lockbox
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To: PapaBear3625

Anything posted on Facebook can and will be used against you...


6 posted on 06/21/2019 5:45:13 AM PDT by TaxPayer2000 (The United States shall guarantee to every state in this union a republican form of government...)
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To: granada

Sounds like these guys’ union is asleep at the switch.


7 posted on 06/21/2019 5:45:22 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer.)
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To: PapaBear3625

The persecution is only beginning. So you can trust God almighty or man. If you choose to feed us to the lions, or march us to the ovens..
Bad days ahead my brothers and sisters right here in America.


8 posted on 06/21/2019 5:45:35 AM PDT by momincombatboots (Do you know anyone who isnÂ’t a socialist after 65? Freedom exchanged for cash and control.)
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There’s gonna be Mayhem in the City of Brotherly Love.


9 posted on 06/21/2019 5:47:01 AM PDT by petitfour (APPEAL TO HEAVEN)
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Does the first amendment not apply? If not, why not?


10 posted on 06/21/2019 5:47:43 AM PDT by cuban leaf
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To: PapaBear3625

We need to know what these officers actually said in context. Working while Republican is not a crime.


11 posted on 06/21/2019 5:47:55 AM PDT by Socon-Econ (adical Islam,)
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Yeah - this wasn’t racism.

I wonder how many police were suspended for having racist views of whites or demanding that the rich be killed or that pro-life or pro-marriage people need to be hunted down.

This was a pure political witch hunt.


12 posted on 06/21/2019 5:48:17 AM PDT by Skywise
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We need to know what these officers actually said in context. Working while Republican is not a crime.

... yet.

13 posted on 06/21/2019 5:48:59 AM PDT by Teacher317 (We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
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Yes, I agree. I cancelled and purged my Facebook account as it was getting too political. As a hiring manager, I know for a fact that social media is now part of the background investigation for new employees and yes, right or wrong, there are companies that would un-consider applicants who have a social media profile that they feel would be potentially harmful to the company image.

By the way, it's not just politics. I'm also referring to those knuckleheads who feel posting pictures of themselves getting hammered at a keg party is a good thing. What they are in fact doing is limiting their career options.

I post here and a few other places under a pseudonym but even so, I'm careful about what I put out there. Even behind a screen name, you are not really safe from having your real identity exposed - "doxxing" as they call it these days.

14 posted on 06/21/2019 5:49:27 AM PDT by SamAdams76
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Mr. Employee, what are you hiding? You have no facebook, twitter, instagram, pinterest that we can find. Why? What is your agenda? Never mind, you’re fired!


15 posted on 06/21/2019 5:50:33 AM PDT by Rebelbase
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Really, this is akin to the East German Stasi. The Stasi relied a vast network of “citizen informers” who would surveil and squeal on their neighbors. What these "researchers" have done is akin to an invasion of privacy, unethical, and un-American.


 

16 posted on 06/21/2019 5:50:46 AM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (September 11, 2001 : Never forget, never forgive.)
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To: PapaBear3625

The crime of insensitivity. To the gallows.


17 posted on 06/21/2019 5:51:35 AM PDT by relictele
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To: petitfour

There’s gonna be Mayhem in the City of Brotherly Love.


Gonna be?

I work less than half an hour from Philly and haven’t been to the city in 3 years. And only then for a work meeting.

It’s full of ferals and woke millenials.


18 posted on 06/21/2019 5:52:21 AM PDT by ConservativeWarrior (Fall down 7 times, stand up 8. - Japanese proverb)
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To: PapaBear3625

Facebook? Never heard of it.


19 posted on 06/21/2019 5:52:54 AM PDT by mosaicwolf
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Who funded the team of researchers?

From the article:

The announcement comes as a local law firm hired by the city continues to investigate the social media posts of more than 300 Philadelphia police officers identified in a database from the Plain View Project, made public June 1.

The posts in question were uncovered by a team of researchers who spent nearly two years looking at the personal Facebook accounts of police officers from Arizona to Florida. They found officers bashing immigrants and Muslims, promoting racist stereotypes, identifying with right-wing militia groups and glorifying police brutality.

A multi-year investigation by a non-profit group Plain View Project, resulting in the hiring of an outside law firm to do the investigating.

Someone has it out for the Philly PD.

20 posted on 06/21/2019 5:54:10 AM PDT by Yo-Yo ( is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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