Posted on 02/15/2021 9:22:44 AM PST by Towed_Jumper
The Los Angeles Police Department administration has launched an internal investigation after it was alleged that an offensive Valentine-style photo was circulating around the department of George Floyd.
The photo of Floyd, who died when a Minneapolis police officer knelt on his neck on May 31, allegedly included the words "You take my breath away.''
The complaining officer was scheduled to be interviewed Monday, LAPD Chief Michel Moore told the Los Angeles Times.
It appears the photo and a possible post on social media originated out of the department's Harbor Patrol Division.
"I just received word through the chain of command of a complaint that was generated on an inappropriate online post from a Department member," Captain Jay Mastick of the Harbor Patrol Division wrote. "The post depicts a photo of George Floyd, with a caption, 'you take my breath away' in a valentine format.
(Excerpt) Read more at fox10phoenix.com ...
This beginning sentence shows just how stupid modern “journalists” are. Poor grammar, bad syntax, and typing errors.
Floyd, who died because of a drug over dose.
Fact check completed
It is in bad taste, but funny as hell.
Free Speech?
I figured you’d know that poor taste isn’t covered by the First Amendment any more. You need to keep up...
I am laughing so hard I can’t breathe.
LOL that’s funny
Why, I am also quite shocked anyone would find humor in this tasteless display. Shocked but laughing.
He died of drug complications. Not cop action breathing trouble. He was a convicted criminal and resisting arrest.
And thousands of people paid a price for the hate filled BLM,Antifa and Dems who looted, burned, destroyed property, shot lasers into officers' eyes, killed a few people, pulled families out of cars driving downtown by mistake, and caused millions of dollars in insurance claims and lost business.
All for an angry ex-con on narcotics.
Is this card riot-worthy?
“”photo was circulating around the department of George
Floyd””
Not attributed - good reason for that. I didn’t know George Floyd had a department in the LAPD.
This has to be laughable for anyone who has ever served in the LAPD or any other law enforcement agency. Books have been written about locker room humor in police precincts but was anyone ever called on the carpet for such shenanigans? Remember Joseph Wambaugh books? Was he castigated for writing his novels? Not then - but I’m sure he would be today!
This George Floyd sure stirred up a hornet’s nest in the USSA, didn’t it? But for that day - would we have seen what happened last year with riots/looting/arson in the cities and two impeachments of OUR PRESIDENT that turned loose the gorillas in our midst?
Cops go out and do their jobs every day with a target on their backs. I won’t begrudge them a little gallows humor.
In my view humor can be offensive. Frankly, I don’t care if someone is offended. If so, they can leave, not look or whatever. My final job was at an ITT spinoff. They made us sign a fifteen page contract stating they could fire us for just about anything. One of the clauses stated I would not, “under any circumstances” tell a joke. I stopped reading and asked the dumb-as-dirt HR lady why. Wide-eyed she responded, “You don’t know who you might offend “. I thought, and I don’t really care. But I needed the job. A Russian told me he had more freedom of speech in the Soviet Union than we had in the workplace.
I should have posted my #14 to your post....I should have kept reading.... Anyway - we’re on the same page..
They surely don’t deserve the title of journalists but I’ll be darned if I know what to call them except extremely STUPID!
Any mocking of St. George Floyd is forbidden and will be punished. Anyone who even smiled at the image should report himself.
Okay. I laughed.
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