People say stuff on social media and get in trouble, episode #8375385

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The New Orleans Police Department has stripped a homicide division sergeant of his officer’s commission after the agency learned of social media posts in his name calling protesters “animals” and saying he would run them over with his car or shoot them if he felt it necessary.

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One comment on an article aggregating a news story about a man who was run over and killed by a FedEx truck during a night of protests in St. Louis last month read, in part, “these idiots want to act like animals.”

“This sh—has moved on from being about George Floyd,” the comment said. “I am running them over, and shooting if lethal force were my only way out. The a—hole under the truck got what he deserved.”

Another comment was in response to New York Times writer Nikole Hannah-Jones’ assertion that “destroying property, which can be replaced, is not violence.”

“Burn down her house. Blow up her car and see if she still feels the same way,” said a comment under Edenfield’s name.

Another comment called the daughter of New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio “this trash bi---” after she was arrested at a protest in Manhattan late last month. And others remarking on aggregations of news stories about violent protesters referred to “savages” and “animals.”

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