Discussion for article #247035
Love a happy…wait, is that tasteless?
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And return his pay from his paid leave?
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Obviously this guy is too stupid to be a cop. The problem with social media is other people see your posts. If you can’t defend them morally or ethically you should keep your mouth shut.
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Now there’s a TRUE Trump acolyte. With that wistful, come-hither look of cluelessness and fascism.
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This guy obviously did not believe in the self-evident truism, “Black Live Matter.”
Not to him they don’t. Nice that his bosses now feel pressure to act, not like before,
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There must have been other cop issues as well. Dumb words alone usually aren’t enough.
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It’s impossible to be too stupid to be a cop.
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Perhaps what we’re finally seeing is the light dawning, particularly for small municipalities. Maybe they’re beginning to realize that tolerating people like this on the town payroll is an open invitation to serious, expensive problems down the road, like the Ferguson DOJ consent decree that will pretty much put the town’s police department out of business.
The happy outcome is that clowns like Cyr are being shown that their attitudes have real consequences. Nothing sends a message like demoting someone from LEO to the graveyard shift at the Kwik-E-Mart.
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It’s all about context, you know. Someone’s suicide is not a happy ending. This man’s firing for being an insensitive jerk, on the other hand, is a happy ending.
See the difference?
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Well, if not a happy ending, that was an appropriate one.
Nice that his bosses now feel pressure to act, not like before,
The things you have to do.
Douchebag.
Cyr was put on leave a little more than a year after two longtime Montgomery County sheriff’s deputies were fired and three others suspended for allegedly sending dozens of racially insensitive text messages that disparaged and ridiculed black co-workers, President Barack Obama and others.
There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds.
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Is that really Cyr? Here is the picture, with his name on his sweater, posted in other media.
I appreciate where I think you’re coming from, but considering he’s a well-paid public official with coercive authority and a weapon, I think the bar should be a little higher… after all, for the KKK or certain police unions, cheering on the death of someone outside their group is morally justifiable.
What’s a little troubling here is that he was fired – officially at least – for expressing his vile opinion in public. If he had just expressed the same opinion among his fellow officers or to any black suspect he arrested, he would still have his job.
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I’d argue that’s a feature, and not a bug. Social media, for an unreflective jerk like this guy, are a kind of bodycam for the soul. It makes it much easier to find the bad apples.
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Roid rage.
As the great statesman Marco Rubio once said: Political correctness equals “free speech under assault.” Exactly! Since when do police officers have to pretend that they care about the lives of black people? Next thing you know, whacko liberals will say our men in blue have to treat everyone equally. Don’t they have enough on their minds already?
Remember folks: Marco and Ted want to defend us against the tyranny of political correctness as much as The Donald does!