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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I anticipated and appreciate your responses.
As far as I’m concerned, individuals should have the ability to bitch about anything in their “personal” social spaces without putting their careers at risk.
Yeah, Fuentes (re)posted some egregious political content, but it wasn’t a statement she made on the job.
>> I would not want her anywhere near a case involving me
Neither would I. Point made.
That's not, necessarily "pro-BLM" rhetoric.
But -- it is, unequivocally, anti-Law Enforcement" rhetoric.
And her employer / employment is...?
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"Stupid is as stupid does..."
TXnMA
The Officers and Union backed GHWB in 1988, I drove by the day he was on the steps receiving the endorsement.
Then mayor ( it might have been now Rep Richard Neal ) shoved it up the Unions @$$ as they drifted in a dessert of no contracts for years...
And she can't see what the problem is!
While I would agree with you, the Cancel Culture going on today won’t stop till it is applied to BOTH sides. After they start taking hits as much as us, then this will stop.
...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....
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Detective in less than a year? Jeez...she was wired to somebody.
I suspect they had to move quickly to terminate her before July 18 which would have been the end of what Im assuming was a one-year PROBATIONARY PERIOD. She did the Police Department a favor by posting that BLM anti-cop image when she did.
apparently she was not as good at sign reading, as she was at ‘detecting’
So many of the younger generations use social media all the time like a reflex action, like automatons...they seem to be incapable of rational thought, that their postings can cut both ways.
Social media claims another one.
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