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KamaAina

(78,249 posts)
Mon Jul 6, 2015, 07:18 PM Jul 2015

Prison 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 president’s likeness accompanied by the text, “Look guys. Obama Christmas ornaments. Suddenly it’s 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 newspaper’s 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
Gee, what a coincidence: a Prison Guard is a White Supremacist? 99th_Monkey Jul 2015 #1
Threatening Obama is OK, one day suspension proves that much randys1 Jul 2015 #2
If he is a white supremist he has no business being a prison guard kimbutgar Jul 2015 #3
this cretin should be the head waiter at Arby's olddots Jul 2015 #4
His definition of racist needs some updating. procon Jul 2015 #5
This is human should lose his job and be prosecuted for threatening the POTUS. onecaliberal Jul 2015 #6

kimbutgar

(21,163 posts)
3. If he is a white supremist he has no business being a prison guard
Mon Jul 6, 2015, 07:39 PM
Jul 2015

That should be a disqualifier in keeping his job

procon

(15,805 posts)
5. His definition of racist needs some updating.
Mon Jul 6, 2015, 08:28 PM
Jul 2015

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 newspaper’s 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.
Mon Jul 6, 2015, 08:29 PM
Jul 2015

What the hell is wrong with people?

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