A Minnesota cop bites the dust for his Facebook musings
BarkGrowlBite | February 25, 2016
Ben Schlag has been an officer with the Rochester Police Department for five years. It would appear that Ben’s career in law enforcement will be short-lived. The idiot has been posting some racial and religious insensitive shit on Facebook.
After Black Lives Matter blocked Interstate 94 in protest of the November 15 shooting of a black man by Minneapolis police, Schlag posted a drawing on Facebook which showed people being run over by a a car with the caption, "Nobody cares about your protest."
On November 20 the idiot posted this goodie on Facebook:
"Studies show that Muslim Radicals are less prone to violence after they've been shot in the fucking face."
Tsk, tsk Ben, what were you thinking? Anyone with half a brain would surmise that pissed off Muslims would find out who wrote that drivel and seeing that it was a cop, turn him into the mayor and police chief.
On Friday, right after he learned of the Facebook posts, Rochester Police Chief Roger Peterson placed Ben on paid administrative leave. Chief Peterson indicated that as soon as all the due process procedures have been followed, he will fire Schlag.
What Ben said on Facebook may not be all that far off, but if you’re a public servant you should keep in mind that you are serving all of the public and you cannot exclude groups you don’t happen to like.
Ben joins a long list of other idiots among cops who forgot that anything you say on social media can be traced back to you and bite you in the ass … hard!
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