Glendale MO Police Officer suspended for calling protesters "rabid dogs"

[Cooley Hurd]

Thanks to this post (which brought the matter to our attention, albeit with an unreliable link to The Daily Caller): http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025430294

...I was able to find a better link:

http://www.websterkirkwoodtimes.com/Articles-Breaking-News-i-2014-08-22-193084.114137-Glendale-Police-Officer-Suspended-For-Inappropriate-Facebook-Posts.html#axzz3B9yj0jnI

August 22, 2014
Glendale Police Chief Jeffrey Beaton this afternoon announced the immediate suspension of Police Officer Matthew Pappert for making several "very concerning and inappropriate posts on his personal Facebook page."

Beaton said the posts came to the attention of his department at about 10:40 a.m. Friday morning. Due to the nature of the posts, Beaton said an internal investigation was immediately initiated.

In several posts over the past few days, Pappert allegedly wrote, "I'm sick of these protesters. You are a burden on society and a blight on the community." In a later post, Beaton allegedly commented, "These protesters should have been put down like a rabid dog the first night."

Beaton, in a written statement released Friday afternoon, noted that the alleged posts and comments made by Officer Pappert "are absolutely not the views and/or opinions of the Glendale Police Department or the City of Glendale, Missouri."

Pappert is a firearms instructor and a member of the police department's Crisis Intervention Team, according to the City of Glendale 2013 Police Report.
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Bad choice for "crisis intervention", IMO...

...and, for comic relief (from the same story):

After news of the Glendale officer's alleged comments, the Glendale Historical Society announced it was canceling this evening's (Aug. 22) annual Ice Cream Social at Glendale City Hall.

Sorry, but that made me LOL! No ice cream for YOU!

[notadmblnd]

1. Don't these guys get any mental health evaluation?

Seems to me they should have their heads examined quarterly at the very least.

[Cooley Hurd]

2. They're supposed to be evaluated...

...perhaps the evaluation standards should be re-evaluated, given the monsters that have been turned loose on our streets.

[CBGLuthier]

3. Paid Vacation. Big Deal.

We got a cop they arrested yesterday for raping and molesting multiple women sitting in jail waiting for a five million dollar bond and the asshole is still drawing his pay. Cops got the best fucking union in the world.

[HooptieWagon]

4. Thank goodness they're so stupid to post their racist views on social media.

Not the sharpest tools in the shed, are they?

[BaggersRDumb]

5. Fugelsang on Steph Miller or one of her regulars today said something like

"Yes, we know 99.9 % of cops are decent, honest, hard working men and women...blah blah balh"

trying to make a point while correctly criticizing the officer in the Brown shooting, but when I heard him say that, while I know why he said it, i said out lout to my radio

NO, not even CLOSE

Not unlike the priesthood, which attracts pedophiles, the police departments all over America attract ass holes who want to use weapons of war against their own citizens, to prove how big their dicks are, etc.

I personally believe 97% of all cops lie at the drop of the hat if it means getting the bad guy as perceived by them...or if they need to protect themselves for lying or a buddy

[justiceischeap]

7. I think that isn't true

I'm no pro cop but I'm not anti cop either. I think there are a lot of cops that go into it for the right reasons but after time they get "institutionalized" into the fraternity.

When I was a teenager I wanted to be a cop and was fortunate that my small town had an Explorer program for kids interested in being police. It was in that program I learned that policing wasn't for me. Not because the police were bad guys (I'd say my small town department of 5 officers were all pretty upstanding cops) but because I got to see the reality of the job--which was that their hands were tied on what they could do for folks.

It's still an experience I look back fondly on and pull from when I think about the fact that there ARE good cops out there. They're just getting harder to find.

[world wide wally]

6. Why are some people so obsessed with getting teachers fired but they don't say shit about

insane cop posses?

[BrotherIvan]

11. Say it again

Why are they so worried about teachers when they should be worried about cops!!!!

[bobduca]

17. there's no money to be made by firing cops

whereas there's plenty of profits to be made by firing teachers and privatizing education.

[msanthrope]

23. Actually...just yesterday I was writing about how Darren Wilson ought to

be fired if he's charged....I think police unions are too powerful. They protect thugs.

[Rhiannon12866]

8. Isn't Michael Brown's killer also on "paid leave?"

This is just unbelievable.

[Cooley Hurd]

9. A form of Murder-For-Hire, I suppose...

[Rhiannon12866]

10. What do these guys have to do to lose their jobs?!

These are truly frightening times. I thought we'd made progress in the last 150 years.

[etherealtruth]

13. I am inclined to believe there is almost nothing they can do , except perhaps

... tick off administration or speak out against the violence and corruption in their ranks

[Rhiannon12866]

15. Even as the nation is horrified by what happened in Ferguson

We are hearing about more similar shootings. That's what boggles the mind.

[Cooley Hurd]

19. Serpico...

n/t!

[etherealtruth]

20. Yep n/t

[SummerSnow]

12. .....

[etherealtruth]

14. Rings (sadly) true n/t

[Rhiannon12866]

16. I saw part of his insane rant on the news tonight

He said he was a follower of Jesus Christ, then said he was "a killer" in the same sentence. What part of the 10 Commandments did he not understand?!

[Cooley Hurd]

18. He's a loon with a badge...

...which, sadly, means he's in the norm.

[pintobean]

21. That was a different cop.

He's with St. Louis County Police.

[Rhiannon12866]

22. You're right!

I seem to have gotten my krazy kops mixed up...