I would be outraged if Laura Bush had been threatened by a DC cop, and I mean that.

[monmouth]

This verbal threat concerning Mrs. Obama is being treated far too cavalierly for my taste. This guy needs to be fired right now, pension or whatever benefits he had should be gone. Why is there not more outrage about this? I'm thinking it's time for some form of media blitz to get people off their a$$es and get moving somehow. You know the President has to be furious about this, is there any tv coverage? My tv is off until Martin..

[lunatica]

1. Hell, I would be outraged even if George Bush was threatened like this

And there are few people I loath more.

It's one thing to be threatened by crazy people out there, but quite another by a policeman, and one that actually works to protect the person they're threatening to kill.

[monmouth]

2. If enough of us make a stink about this he might be gone by the end of business today. She's the

First Lady of this nation, and it's just totally unacceptable. Can you imagine what would have happened if this had occurred to Barbara Bush, Mamie Eisenhower or Jackie Kennedy. What the hell is wrong with people????

[trayfoot]

4. Freeper much?

How did you get on DU? Sounds to me like you are a racist Freeper!

[Mnemosyne]

5. And it's still here!

[bpj62]

6. Police Union Protects Him.

RIght now he has been stripped of his police powers until the investigation by both Metro PD and the Secret Service is completed.They have not released his name, they have only said that he worked for SOD (special operations detail) and that when questioned as to why he was late for his motorcade detail he went off on a tangent about how much he hated that bitch and that he wished she was dead. he then took out his phone and showed his fellow officers the gun he would use to kill her with. This guys clearly has anger management issues and he has no business carrying a weapon.

[liberalhistorian]

7. I totally agree. I don't care which president or first lady

it is, Barbara or G.H. Bush, Hillary Clinton or Laura Bush, G.W. Bush or Bill Clinton, any threat whatsoever from a law enforcement officer, ESPECIALLY ONE ON THE D.C. FORCE PROTECTING THE PRESIDENT, needs to be dealt with swiftly and severely, period. I really do not understand why that isn't the case here. To threaten to shoot the FLOTUS and then even show a fucking picture of the damn gun he'd use is NOT. ACCEPTABLE. PERIOD.

[11 Bravo]

8. Unless it was an extremely belated threat to charge her with vehicular manslaughter, I agree.