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The Secret Service said Thursday that it was looking into a photograph posted on the Internet that showed a group of young Arizona men posing in the desert with guns while holding up what appeared to be a bullet-riddled image of President Obamas face.
The photograph showed seven casually dressed young men, four of whom clutched weapons and one of whom held up a T-shirt covered with small holes and gashes and bearing a likeness of Mr. Obama above the word HOPE. The weapons held aloft appeared to be a revolver, a bolt-action rifle and two assault rifles.
Were aware of it, and were conducting the appropriate follow-up steps, said Ed Donovan, a Secret Service spokesman in Washington.
The photo, along with the remark Another trip to the ranch, was posted on Jan. 20 on the Facebook page of Sgt. Pat Shearer, a police officer in Peoria, Ariz., a Phoenix suburb. The image was removed from Sergeant Shearers page on Thursday afternoon shortly after inquiries about it to the Peoria Police Department. Sergeant Shearer, a decorated officer who was honored in 2007 for helping to save a driver trapped in a burning vehicle, did not respond to a request for comment on Thursday.
full: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/27/us/secret-service-looks-into-image-of-obama-riddled-with-bullets.html
Here's a GD thread about this. photo:
And a police officer willfully let this get posted on his Facebook? If so he should be fired. Why is he promoting violent threats to the President?
Oh yeah. Isn't the "Taxed Enough Already" Party supposed to be picketing the Peoria Police Department because their tax dollars are paying for a policeman who encourages crime? (But if it's Obama it's alright! )