Springfield police detective Florissa Fuentes fired over pro-Black Lives Matter social media post (MA)

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[Gene Eric]

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.

[TXnMA]

FTA:..." her niece holds a sign that reads: “Shoot the F--- Back.” A friend’s sign reads: “Who do we call when the murderer wears the badge?”"

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
  

[taildragger]

Springfield has always been an interesting place Police wise.

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...

[Impala64ssa]

>>One year recruit becomes a detective? Guess she had ‘special’ qualifications.
As the sometimes vulgar, but insightful Jericho Green says, "if you got a tw*t, you got a spot!"

[packrat35]

Flames leap up in the background and her niece holds a sign that reads: “Shoot the F--- Back.”

And she can't see what the problem is!

[packrat35]

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.

[House Atreides]

“...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 I’m assuming was a one-year PROBATIONARY PERIOD. She did the Police Department a favor by posting that BLM anti-cop image when she did.

[blueplum]

apparently she was not as good at sign reading, as she was at ‘detecting’

[simpson96]

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.

[DoodleDawg]

Social media claims another one.