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Cops fired for guarding ‘defund the police’ Dem Rep. Cori Bush without permission
NY Post ^ | 08/13/2021 | Samuel Chamberlain

Posted on 08/13/2021 5:03:15 PM PDT by DFG

Two St. Louis deputies were dismissed last month for working on progressive Rep. Cori Bush’s security detail without permission — days before the “Squad” member defended spending tens of thousands of campaign dollars on private protection while pushing to “defund the police.”

St. Louis Sheriff Vernon Betts told KMOV that he initially warned now-former deputies Tylance Jackson and Maurice Thompson to quit moonlighting as muscle for Bush (D-Mo.) and fill out the proper forms after they accompanied her on a tour of St. Louis jails in April. However, Betts said he was told by Veterans Affairs Police several weeks later that Jackson and Thompson were providing security for Bush again.

In addition to violating policy by not getting approval to work a secondary shift, neither Jackson nor Thompson have licenses to work private security, Betts told KMOV.

Jackson claimed Thursday that he and Thompson were dismissed because they “didn’t push the agenda of the sheriff on the client [Bush].”

“I do feel that the hand that was dealt to us was unfair and unjust,” Jackson told KMOV. “You let us go, but you still have a plethora of individuals doing that but you don’t say anything.”

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TOPICS: US: Missouri
KEYWORDS: bush; cori; defund; stlouis
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1 posted on 08/13/2021 5:03:15 PM PDT by DFG
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To: DFG

One way to defund the police.


2 posted on 08/13/2021 5:06:54 PM PDT by AZJeep (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0AHGreco RomNQkryIIs)
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To: DFG

Any cop that would work for her deserves to get fired. Good Riddance.


3 posted on 08/13/2021 5:06:59 PM PDT by Revel
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To: DFG

And then, she threw those two Cops right under da Bus without blinking an eye!


4 posted on 08/13/2021 5:07:56 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: DFG

Where does she get the money for private security?


5 posted on 08/13/2021 5:08:24 PM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: DFG

Any agency that allows you to moonlight in uniform sets the rules. You don’t follow them, you get canned.

As an aside, I never understood the whole moonlighting in uniform thing. It seems to be more a southern habit.

CC


6 posted on 08/13/2021 5:13:13 PM PDT by Celtic Conservative (My cats are more amusing than 200 channels worth of TV.)
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To: DFG

Apparently they were warned but defied the Chief anyway. They defied the chief because Bush is a racist bitch and they wanted to have a chance to strut their black asses and feel ‘powerful’. I’m sure she’ll hire them just to defy the situation. Then they’ll pump their fists in the air in celebration and to show whitey their allegiance to a racist.


7 posted on 08/13/2021 5:15:50 PM PDT by LibertyWoman (Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil... Isaiah 5:20)
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To: DFG

Well, it sounds like they were given fair warning. I don’t mind if cops take a second job but as the boss said “fill out the proper paperwork”. Otherwise it can have the appearance of graft. Which is not OK for cops but somehow politicians seem to get away with it.


8 posted on 08/13/2021 5:22:33 PM PDT by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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To: DoodleDawg
Where does she get the money for private security?

Campaign funds, $75,000 for private security so far.

9 posted on 08/13/2021 5:23:51 PM PDT by SFConservative
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To: DoodleDawg
Where does she get the money for private security?

Assuming of course that she is not independently wealthy and that she cannot use direct campaign money; then I imagine she has an ally set-up a special PAC like the "prisoner victims federation" that takes unlimited donations, which then lobbies her for prison reform, and agrees to pay for her security to visit the horrid conditions of the local jails. Some scheme like that that evades the rule of law via loophole.

10 posted on 08/13/2021 5:26:19 PM PDT by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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To: DFG

They should be. They should have their certification revoked permanently also. It should be in the category of associating with known criminals. But bitches such as her is who the American people want ruling over them today. We sank so low. So quick.


11 posted on 08/13/2021 5:28:16 PM PDT by sport
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To: Celtic Conservative
As an aside, I never understood the whole moonlighting in uniform thing. It seems to be more a southern habit.

St. Louis deputies don't get paid a lot.

12 posted on 08/13/2021 5:29:05 PM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: DFG
"“You let us go, but you still have a plethora of individuals doing that but you don’t say anything.”"


13 posted on 08/13/2021 5:42:08 PM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: DoodleDawg

Perhaps that’s it. Southern law enforcement is paid quite a bit less than their northern brethren.

CC


14 posted on 08/13/2021 5:47:00 PM PDT by Celtic Conservative (My cats are more amusing than 200 channels worth of TV.)
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To: DoodleDawg

$200,000, I’d like an answer to that question too.


15 posted on 08/13/2021 5:49:07 PM PDT by VTenigma (The Democrat party is the party of the mathematically challenged )
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To: DoodleDawg

From her idiotic, deluded, and or corrupt campaign contributors.


16 posted on 08/13/2021 5:53:37 PM PDT by DMZFrank
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To: DFG

She’s one of the reasons I still keep my Facebook account, I constantly torment her. “Where’s the white supremacy Cori? I can find it. It must exist, you keep mentioning it. Please help me Cori find the white supremacy”


17 posted on 08/13/2021 5:58:57 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary Clinton remains free equal justice under the law will never exist in the USA)
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To: DFG

I stopped reading at Tylance.


18 posted on 08/13/2021 6:21:33 PM PDT by Wilderness Conservative (Nature is the ultimate conservative)
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To: Celtic Conservative

“As an aside, I never understood the whole moonlighting in uniform thing. It seems to be more a southern habit.”

Overtime and side jobs is how they make a living. I don’t have a problem with that except when I see them doing it in government issued vehicles.


19 posted on 08/13/2021 6:22:38 PM PDT by suthener ( )
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To: DoodleDawg

She’s Instant Rich don’t you know


20 posted on 08/13/2021 6:28:18 PM PDT by butlerweave
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