Posted on 07/14/2020 11:30:41 AM PDT by matt04
Florissa Fuentes went through an admittedly rocky adolescence growing up in the citys North End, finding herself in loads of trouble before a high school-based city police officer persuaded her to move to North Carolina for a new perspective.
Hailing from a heavily military family, Fuentes returned to the city in 2007, a teen hoping for a fresh start. She aimed to join the U.S. Navy, but her brother, Daniel Newsome, was killed in combat in Baghdad, discounting her from enlisting just as she prepared for basic training.
Fuentes eventually set her eyes on a corrections career, graduating from the Western Massachusetts County Correctional Officers Training Academy as class president in 2018.
Last year she was among 18 new recruits for the Springfield Police Department. Fuentes was pinned by Commissioner Cheryl Clapprood at a ceremony at Springfield College on July 18, 2019.
However, her career was cut short in under a year. A newly promoted detective in the Special Victims Unit, Fuentes, now 30, was fired on June 19 about a month after posting a pro-Black Lives Matter image to her personal Instagram account while off duty.
The image showed her niece protesting in Atlanta. Flames leap up in the background and her niece holds a sign that reads: Shoot the F--- Back. A friends sign reads: Who do we call when the murderer wears the badge?
The photo was taken May 29, Fuentes said. She posted it the next day, and it wasnt long before the storm came.
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Double Minority Power Up.
Govt fast track. A woman minority is pure gold. Especially if she’s a lesbian. Instant promotion and no competence required. Ain’t it grand?
It was right to fire such an idiot. When she saw her niece’s tweet (or Instagram or whatever) the normal thing would have been to tell the niece to take it down, saying “Do you realize the flak I’ll take if my co-workers find out my niece posted violent anti-cop crap?”. Instead, the idiot proudly retweets it. Too dumb to keep around, IMO.
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This is absolute proof most of these cities are run by extremely corrupt people who have zero ethics and double standards rule the day.
Stupid is as stupid does.....
Fuentes was already on probation and the social media post marked her ‘second issue’ during her time with the department.
This is what happens when you have the pay for a cop to be so low. Same with teachers. You get what you pay for. These defund police cities are only will only make things worse. They just dont realize it yet. Or care.
She has the look they want to prove they meet today’s requirements.
I disagree, if she what that stupid as a probationary office she would be 10X worse as a fill fledged officer. I would not want her anywhere near a case involving me.
That is what I was thinking a probationary officer getting a detective slot in a high profile unit.
Unheard of in most departments.
Maybe she would not put out for the commissioner.
Except how “bullet-proof” she was.
That is salary. Figure benefits at about 70% of that, in addition.
Whutt?
They're saying the chick got cheaper? Not a nice thing to say.
Is this a liberal news source with liberal literacy?
Indeed - perhaps she owns her own kneepads!
I noticed that as well. Not even off probation and becomes a detective. If she showed promise as a Detective I could see some taiko with senior Detectives on occasion but not full fledge.
https://www.howtobecome.com/how-to-become-a-detective
Four to five years—that is for folks who aren’t “special”....
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