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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPrison guard suspended one day for threatening to lynch Obama on FB
One day.http://host.madison.com/wsj/news/local/crime_and_courts/prison-guard-suspended-for-facebook-post/article_529cc558-422a-5295-8906-c43208b06db6.html
A Wisconsin prison guard who posted a joke on Facebook last year about lynchings that referenced President Barack Obama received a one-day suspension and was required to attend training, according to documents obtained by the State Journal.
Correctional Officer Collin Visser posted in December a photo of Christmas tree ornaments with the presidents likeness accompanied by the text, Look guys. Obama Christmas ornaments. Suddenly its legal to hang a black man from a tree again!
Visser, who has worked at Dodge Correctional Institution in Waupun since April 2014, shared the image in the comments section of a newspapers Facebook post about a Black Lives Matter rally in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
I am not a racist, Visser said.
Correctional Officer Collin Visser posted in December a photo of Christmas tree ornaments with the presidents likeness accompanied by the text, Look guys. Obama Christmas ornaments. Suddenly its legal to hang a black man from a tree again!
Visser, who has worked at Dodge Correctional Institution in Waupun since April 2014, shared the image in the comments section of a newspapers Facebook post about a Black Lives Matter rally in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
I am not a racist, Visser said.
Riiiiiiight. And if you believe that, I've got a bridge I'd like to show you.
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Prison guard suspended one day for threatening to lynch Obama on FB (Original Post)
KamaAina
Jul 2015
OP
This is human should lose his job and be prosecuted for threatening the POTUS.
onecaliberal
Jul 2015
#6
99th_Monkey
(19,326 posts)1. Gee, what a coincidence: a Prison Guard is a White Supremacist?
randys1
(16,286 posts)2. Threatening Obama is OK, one day suspension proves that much
kimbutgar
(21,163 posts)3. If he is a white supremist he has no business being a prison guard
That should be a disqualifier in keeping his job
olddots
(10,237 posts)4. this cretin should be the head waiter at Arby's
procon
(15,805 posts)5. His definition of racist needs some updating.
He went out of his way to target a particular group and add the inflammatory and derogatory graphic in a specific newspaper story:
"... he shared the image in the comments section of a newspapers Facebook post about a Black Lives Matter rally in Cedar Rapids, Iowa."
Read more: http://host.madison.com/news/local/crime_and_courts/prison-guard-suspended-for-facebook-post/article_529cc558-422a-5295-8906-c43208b06db6.html#ixzz3fA15h75T
onecaliberal
(32,864 posts)6. This is human should lose his job and be prosecuted for threatening the POTUS.
What the hell is wrong with people?