San Jose Police Are Reviewing Officer’s Behavior After Threatening Tweets To Protesters: http://t.co/rDW3TgVf0r pic.twitter.com/GtCR7Ky7Yk
— Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner) December 14, 2014
Sometime people forget that others can see their tweets, especially their employers. So you can imagine the controversy San Jose police officer Phillip White who had the above delightful things to say in response to protestors caused. And these are just a few of his deleted tweets. White, who has been on the police force for 20 years, has been placed on administrative leave.
America’s police force: continuing to make citizens feel safe and their actions valued, am I right?
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CONGRATULATIONS!
Of all the police departments to do that in, San Jose was the wrong fucking one. They are usually more decent than not. I realize that’s faint praise for any police department, but that’s about as good as it can get these days.
FormerSwingVoter
This is where my typical unhinged anti-police screed would go. I just don’t have the energy anymore. These people are monsters, and by trying to threaten people into respecting them they’re simply convincing me (and others) more each day.
C.V. Danes
Even if that could somehow fit into the code of conduct for a peace officer, I’m not sure that he has the “right and duty to kill” when he’s off duty…
MJ
I’m glad that Social Media is wonderfully revealing for the wingnuts. It reveals their terrifying collective id.
boatboy_srq
Does Mr. White live in Wesley Chapel, by any chance?
FridayNext
@C.V. Danes:
It might be if someone was IN FACT threatening him or his family. What is missing, assuming it would make it under the character count, is the thought or phrase “and I reserve the right to interpret whether you are a threat or not based entirely on my own prejudices and fears and you have no right to second guess or judge me even though you pay my salary and I am sworn to serve and protect you.”
chopper
so god gives cops the right to shoot people as they see fit. i assume he’s talking old testament god, not hippie jesus god.
ET
I don’t think threats are on the “use of force continuum” even off duty.
Shakezula
Then what would be the point of Tweeting?
This is yet another fuckhead who has run face first into the fact that not everyone is as repulsive as he is.
Splat!
kc
“administrative leave”
Step 1: Get a job as a police officer
Step 2: Make threatening, unhinged statements OR shoot an unarmed person to death
Step 3: PROFIT!
Mayken
I usually have very, very strong feelings about employers reading/acting on the social media content of potential or actual employees, except in cases like this when it is in direct connection to his actual fucking job of supposedly protecting and serving.
Jeebus what an asshole! And people really wonder why some folks don’t trust the po-po?!
El Cruzado
The SJPD spent a few years well with downsized budget and letting go folks left and right, and even today it has retention problems (mostly because all the other police forces in the area pay better). I imagine there’s a good chance that some of the worse veterans stuck through, being the hardest to downsize and knowing they wouldn’t do better elsewhere.
Management seems to be pretty honest about trying to avoid being another Cleveland PD, and the recent downsizing means there’s a lot of new blood coming in these days, so hopefully they won’t be in the news too much going forward.
drouse
@CONGRATULATIONS!: I have to disagree with you there. I lived most of my life in San Jose with the last ten years in a condo right across from St James park. SJ cops have always been quick to violence, especially towards minorities and the mentally ill. The civilian review board is a toothless joke and the mayor and council won’t cross them because no one gets elected without a police endorsement. Most likely he’ll go back on duty once the flap dies down. If he is forced out, he’ll retire on disability. You would simply be amazed at the percentage of cops there who suddenly become disabled just before retirement.
Tree With Water
I’ve only been in the presence of one cop that I knew, beyond a shadow of a doubt, to be loco. I don’t doubt there have been others. Fortunately, I was an innocent bystander that one time, who didn’t have to stick around.
Citizen_X
Wait, he threatens everybody in that second tweet. So according to him, aren’t we supposed to shoot him now?
Frankensteinbeck
This is why some people should be on social media. It’s hard to tell how well the Information Age is really informing us, but it’s ripping off a lot of masks.
jl
@drouse: You are right. San Jose police department has a pretty mixed record wrt to violence. Been a number if incidents of quick shootings of poor Hispanics and SE Asians who were probably just disturbed. And the police department has been reduced by the crude pension and salary gutting policies of their crummy Democratic mayor who I personally think is not too careful about the truth, and I think had to (edit: more or less) admit that publicly about his cooked pension crisis report a couple of years ago.
There has been a push to get SF Bay Area police forces trained in dealing with disturbed and maybe not disturbed but just very upset and agitated people without shooting first and asking questions later. Don’t know if San Jose has picked up on that training, since they need it more than most, from what I hear on the news.
Edit: though I think I heard that the San Jose police union didn’t back this nut, which IIRC is refreshing news.
catclub
shouldn’t his hastag be #CopsLivesMatter_More ?
drouse
@jl: That crude pension gutting was forced partially by police intransigence. Their benefits were negotiated at a time when it seemed that the sun would always shine in silicon valley.Come on, retire at 90% of salary while young enough for a complete second career? Add on the usual unrealistically high ROI numbers for the pension fund that were used. Then there is that whole gaming the disability benefits thing. The whole thing was becoming unsupportable and the police response made doing the necessary more painful than it had to be.
jl
@drouse: Seems like a lot of other cities can offer a much better deal than San Jose can now. How come? Maybe the police department was intransigent because Chuck Reed wanted to cut pay and pensions unreasonably deep and was using the pension crisis as an excuse?
It’s Reed’s hobby horse. He tried to parlay it into a statewide initiative which died a quick death.