Posted on 08/27/2022 9:27:13 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Editor's note: This story was updated on August 18 to reflect that Juan Hernandez served a 40-hour suspension for the offensive social media posts.
Three years after a sergeant's bigoted Facebook posts helped spark a scandal in the Phoenix Police Department, an appeals court has allowed his lawsuit against the city, which alleges First Amendment violations, to move forward.
In 2013 and 2014, current Phoenix police sergeant Juan Hernandez shared a multitude of offensive memes on his personal Facebook page. "The most common name for a convicted gang rapist in England is Muhammad," one of the posts read. "These gangs are not comprised of 'Asians'; they are Muslims." Another post — titled "Recent Contributions to Science By Islam" — mocked Islam and Muslim people.
Hernandez's posts went unnoticed until 2019. That's when the Plain View Project published more than 5,000 Facebook posts shared by police officers around the country. The researchers spent two years combing through social media feeds of current and former cops looking for posts that might "undermine public trust and confidence in police."
Hernandez was one of 97 current and former officers in the Phoenix Police Department who had their offensive post included in the project.
The database included 282 posts from Phoenix officers. Some of the posts were shocking: One featured a truck covered in blood, captioned "Just drove through Ferguson. Didn't see any problems," referencing the protests in Ferguson, Missouri, over the death of Black teenager Michael Brown.
One of the bigoted Facebook memes posted by current Phoenix police sergeant Juan Hernandez. Court records Another, posted by former Phoenix officer James Wolfenden, claimed that Black Lives Matter was a "domestic terror group" that was "funded by Hamas," the Palestinian militant organization.
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Not a single one of the comments cited were offensive - or even inaccurate.
the left have waged war on truth because truth exposes the left’s lies and deceit-
“Lord forgive me for that last joke, and be with the starving pygmies in New Guinea.”
Looks like he is sensible to me.
Now if I can just figure out how to separate the memes I will post them here and there myself.
I went through their social media posts and found numerous things that I found (subjectively) offensive - including such words as "or" and "but."
I am outraged and demand that the guilty officials be immediately suspended!
(Same logic!)
Regards,
… an appeals court has allowed his lawsuit against the city, which alleges First Amendment violations, to move forward.
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Freedom of speech does not have an exclusion for being “offensive” to others, much as social justice warriors would like to and try to control speech and thought.
We apologise again for the fault in the subtitles. Those responsible for sacking the people who have just been sacked, have been sacked.
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (opening credits)
Muslims deserve to be mocked. They teach themselves and their children every day that it is ok to murder any non-muslim for any reason.
The article is filled with racist pronouns and should be banned. /s
The comments were absolutely true. That is why they went after him.
Ohhhhh... Thought criminals. Time to add them to the 15 minutes of hate before we unperson them!
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