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Seattle Cop Fired After Bill Of Rights Video Goes Viral
dailycaller.com ^ | May 12, 2020 | Nicholas Elias

Posted on 05/12/2020 12:38:29 PM PDT by PROCON

Port of Seattle Police Officer and Special Forces Veteran Greg Anderson was removed from his position after his video about police officers abusing their power went viral.

In an update video posted to his Instagram yesterday, Anderson says he has now been terminated from the Port of Seattle Police Department and is on allegedly on administrative leave pending investigation.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events; US: Washington; US: West Virginia
KEYWORDS: billofrights; carmenbest; greganderson; police; policestate; seattle; tyranny; washington
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To: davidb56

I’ve 25 nice acres available in Oldtown.


21 posted on 05/12/2020 1:09:36 PM PDT by coaster123 (Virus = First Plane Strikes Tower)
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To: PROCON

He should have given a junkie a hot dose and a dirty needle.

They’d give him a medal.


22 posted on 05/12/2020 1:09:54 PM PDT by relictele
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To: PROCON

In a city where the DA won’t prosecute drug dealing and attacks on tourists - well the tourism of Seattle is just about gone; nobody wants to come here and be attacked and have to dodge excrement on city street and no law protection what so ever.


23 posted on 05/12/2020 1:10:42 PM PDT by SkyDancer (~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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To: discostu

Citizens are not outsiders.


24 posted on 05/12/2020 1:10:49 PM PDT by coaster123 (Virus = First Plane Strikes Tower)
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To: coaster123

The hell they aren’t. Doesn’t matter what job you have, outside the “company” are outsiders. ALWAYS. It’s a basic social structure.


25 posted on 05/12/2020 1:12:03 PM PDT by discostu (I know that's a bummer baby, but it's got precious little to do with me)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
Thanks PROCON.

26 posted on 05/12/2020 1:12:50 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: PROCON

How about the citizens of Washington replace their fraud of a Governor Inslee with this fine cop?!?!?


27 posted on 05/12/2020 1:14:28 PM PDT by G Larry (The People must shutdown the tyrants.)
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To: Gay State Conservative
He would lose.

This isn't a 1A issue. Contract Law supersedes his right to speech when he is representing while in uniform and clearly in a department vehicle.

All he had to do was make the video at home and out of uniform, and he'd be fine.

28 posted on 05/12/2020 1:18:08 PM PDT by Salvavida
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To: discostu

A person does not give up their constitutional right to free speech just because he is puic employee.

Don’t argue with me, argue with the U.S. Supreme Court.


29 posted on 05/12/2020 1:18:35 PM PDT by WASCWatch
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To: PROCON

I know the guy. Good man. I know the Chief. Also a good man. I work for the organization, and know they monitor social media, hence my reluctance to say much.

I don’t know all of the internal or external politics. I’m just sad to see this all blow up to the level it has.

I have a lot of respect for Greg for standing on his principles.


30 posted on 05/12/2020 1:21:43 PM PDT by Vercingetorixbc (Veni, Vedi, Butti - I came, I saw, I kicked butt)
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To: WASCWatch

No you don’t. But you air your employer’s dirty laundry in public, you usually get fired. Public employee, private employee, that’s just how it goes.


31 posted on 05/12/2020 1:21:54 PM PDT by discostu (I know that's a bummer baby, but it's got precious little to do with me)
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To: PROCON

He should sue. This is an open-and-shut case.


32 posted on 05/12/2020 1:22:21 PM PDT by dinodino
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To: Vercingetorixbc
I live in Washington state too and have watched it devolve from a great conservative bastion to the insane liberalism we've been stuck with for the last 35 or so years.

There's no doubt in my mind that the termination order came from Olympia.

Yeah, the guy is a real patriot, I'm sure he'll rebound just fine.

33 posted on 05/12/2020 1:24:49 PM PDT by PROCON (Molon Labe)
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To: discostu

“While I agree with him Godfather rule #1 still applies: never disagree with family in front of outsiders.”

His family is the US citizen and followers of the constitution. The tyrants and lackeys locking up people for walking down the beach are the outsiders.
No kidding, that was truly this man’s mindset.


34 posted on 05/12/2020 1:25:43 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: PROCON

THIS is why so often you see bad cops get away with BS.
The good guys get punished for doing the right thing.


35 posted on 05/12/2020 1:27:29 PM PDT by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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To: CatOwner
Yep! 110 years past the "lost" point...

The founders would have gathered at Concord bridge again sometime between 1906 and 1916... T.R., Wilson, and F.D.R. placed the lid on the casket and began driving in the nails...

Bush and obungghole finished the job...

36 posted on 05/12/2020 1:30:45 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is Sam Adams now that we desperately need him)
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To: Salvavida

“This isn’t a 1A issue. Contract Law supersedes his right to speech when he is representing while in uniform and clearly in a department vehicle.”

Nope. Look at what he said. That he has seen some officers in other place violating the law. True.
That he has been in combat zones where war breaks down the police/citizen relationship. True.
That officers have a duty to not obey an illegal order. Also true, proven at Nuremberg.
He said that police operate with the consent of a far larger armed entity, the people. And that if they lose that consent it would not go well for the police. True again.

He said nothing to encourage law breaking or violence. He begged for fidelity to the constitution and its laws.
He showed deep respect for the concept of policing.

You are forgetting, his jury won’t be made of cops and police supervisors. It will be made of those he honored with his speech.


37 posted on 05/12/2020 1:31:41 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: DesertRhino

No it isn’t. Really people. Think it through. If you go an put something on social media that bad mouths your entire industry, any industry, and it goes viral with hundreds of thousands of view, you’re gonna get fired. That’s how jobs work. I know we like to think of “public servants” as some magical thing that’s somehow different than every other job in the country, but it isn’t. When push comes to shove police forces are companies, with many of the same basic corporate rules as every other company. Companies that are unionized no less, meaning both the company and the union don’t want anybody slagging the whole industry in public. Same thing would have happened if he was in the TV industry, software, furniture making. Put a 10 minute video out there talking about how awful your industry is, watch it go viral, and you get fired.


38 posted on 05/12/2020 1:31:45 PM PDT by discostu (I know that's a bummer baby, but it's got precious little to do with me)
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To: Vercingetorixbc
I have a lot of respect for Greg for standing on his principles.

Me too. He is a brave, noble man. May God bless, watch over, and provide for him and his family.

39 posted on 05/12/2020 1:32:04 PM PDT by .30Carbine
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To: discostu

Citizens have the authority, cops are agents who snap to when told.


40 posted on 05/12/2020 1:32:34 PM PDT by coaster123 (Virus = First Plane Strikes Tower)
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