A police officer has been removed from road patrol while he’s being investigated in connection with Facebook posts that suggested the Parkland school massacre could be a hoax, police said Monday. North Miami Beach police Officer Ericson Harrell has been reassigned to administrative restricted duty with pay, until the police department’s investigation is over, said police spokesman Maj. Richard Rand. One of the Facebook posts under the name of Harrell asked, “What proof do you have? What evidence do you have, that anyone was killed other than #MSM accounts, alleged witnesses and a couple of funeral processions?” The department’s internal-affairs investigation began Friday after inquiries from the South Florida Sun Sentinel. Harrell could not be reached for comment Monday, though the Facebook page with his name on it acknowledged this weekend that his department is reviewing the matter. “Well, if you haven't heard already, I'll be standing in front of the man because of my questioning the the [sic] Parkland narrative!!” the Facebook entry said. http://www.sun-sentinel.com/local/b...rrell-administrative-duty-20180409-story.html
I mean.... aside from bad taste, is this illegal? Do they kick out people who believe in the Roswell UFO crash? Or do they kick out people who believe the world is flat? There are tons of conspiracy theories out there. Aside from maybe a symptom of mental illness, which could be verified one way or the other, I don't know if this is something that should be a fire-able offense. Honestly, I don't know why anyone posts anything on facebook. That's why I do all my crazy venting on here.
I’m basically in agreement with you except this does go to show that his grasp of logic is fleeting. Should that person be given the responsibility of authority? Power to arrest or shoot people? I’m honestly not happy with booting him off the force for a harmless opinion but I’m also not happy with having an imbecile as a cop, with a badge and a gun.
It's actually alarming to me that this guy gets removed while guys who've unloaded entire 16 round clips into unarmed people are still on patrol. His opinions he expressed are definitely questionable but where do the police priorities lie here? Seems like waging a war on skepticism takes precedent over not blasting people to death on the regular.
How can anyone be that stupid? Huh? How? It's kind of like the White Supremacists who say the Holocaust never happened.
You've got to prove a case that someone fired into someone else needlessly. This case is pretty self evident.
Shooting to death a person who does not have a weapon is proof enough for me. Interesting you'd defend such action in the pursuit of simply arguing with a forum member you generally disagree with.
You seldom know about the extenuating details until you hear the case presented or you were a very good witness to the event.
That's just a broad and generalized factoid you decided to blurt out. It goes for either side, and doesn't make your assertion any more correct. Something being difficult to prove doesn't negate it's existence.
I see no evidence at all that he called the Parkland murders a hoax. Nowhere in the linked article is anything remotely close to that revealed. He simply stated that the anti-gun crusaders are being paid and given scripts to perform in public in exchange for momentary fame, monetary renumeration, free travel, meals and hotel rooms, which is obviously true and tacitly admitted to by David "The Bully" Hogg. The juvenile insults inferring that I am either a racist or a conspiracy theorist are just that, juvenile, and on a par with the low-quality posts I've come to expect from our less-intelligent posters here. Sticks and stones.
“What proof do you have? What evidence do you have, that anyone was killed other than #MSM accounts, alleged witnesses and a couple of funeral processions?”
That's a legitimate question he posed, and nobody has answered him. Major Crimes have a plethora of recorded evidence. Photos, fingerprints, DNA, diagrams, timelines, witness descriptions... Since Cruz survived, unlike pretty much every other suspicious school murder, we will or should eventually see the evidence. It can't be burned and bulldozed and proclaimed irrelevant as with Sandy Hook because he survived and has (I hope) a legal team who will demand to see it. Mostly, all we've been shown is 62 separate times Federal, State, County, and City officials were warned by the public, and officials warning each other, that Cruz was going to be a murderer. Agencies will be sued, officials will be fired and possibly charged with crimes. I would say "murders purposely allowed/encouraged to occur" or "professionally abetted mass-murder" is what happened at Parkland. For political gain.
No, I am not a conspiracy theorist. Conspiracies are real. They are a fact and nearly every organized crime that ever occurred came out of conspiracy. conspiracy (kən-spîrˈə-sē) ► n. An agreement to perform together an illegal, wrongful, or subversive act. n. A group of conspirators. n. Law An agreement between two or more persons to commit a crime or accomplish a legal purpose through illegal action. When overwhelming evidence exists that a conspiracy has occurred, I post about it, and usually supply plenty of court-verified evidence to support the charge. Conspiracy theories are hypothetical, based on at least some rational likelihood and supporting but limited evidence. When the theories are on target, the conspirators exposed usually conspire to discredit the theorist by lamely calling them "conspiracy theorists". This works to tame the sheeple. The overwhelming majority of conspiracy theories are ultimately proven to be true, often decades later after the protected conspirators have died and the causes they supported have also passed on.
