San Jose: SJPD officer placed on leave as fallout continues after controversial protest tweets

[alp227]

Source: Mercury News

SAN JOSE -- For weeks, San Jose police Officer Phillip White had been using his personal Twitter account to vent displeasure over the ongoing protests in Oakland and around the country about the deaths of unarmed black men at the hands of law enforcement.

But when his posts turned threatening last weekend, White learned just how far-reaching words can be on social media. SJPD placed White on administrative leave Monday as the furor over the officer's posts showed no signs of abating.

An online petition at change.org demanding his firing gained over 5,000 signatures in less than a day. Civic leaders questioned how he can continue to be an effective cop. Menlo College, where White was an assistant basketball coach, cut ties with him.

The most inflammatory tweets, which evoked the strongest social-media reaction read, "Threaten me or my family and I will use my God given and law appointed right and duty to kill you. #CopsLivesMatter" and "By the way if anyone feels they can't breathe or their lives matter I'll be at the movies tonight, off duty, carrying my gun."

Read more: http://www.mercurynews.com/crime-courts/ci_27140928/san-jose-fallout-continues-from-sjpd-officers-controversial

[marym625]

1. Good to know

Now if we could get rid of all the rest of them. Some that are too smart to use social media to threaten people

[rhett o rick]

2. So he may get fired for tweeting while others get away with murder. nm

[Spooky69]

7. you picked up on that too . . . . boggles my mind n/t

[Demsrule86]

15. Good

You read his stuff...he is panting for a shoot out and to murder...he dreams of it a night I bet. I believe many of these cops enjoy killing. If he is fired lives may very well be saved.

[CurtEastPoint]

3. F'ing neanderthal.

[JackInGreen]

12. Oh look

the monster can put on a pretty face and talk to children in a controlled class room, isn't that quaint?

[Jefferson23]

4. If he is removed from the force, I'll eat my hat. n/t

[niyad]

5. Civic leaders questioned how he can continue to be an effective cop

that assumes that he ever WAS effective (and by whose definition)

[blkmusclmachine]

6. ,

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[rpannier]

8. Social media, aka Twitter

once again emboldens the stupid
I am amazed at how people can sit and type out the stupidity and then send it, w/o something in their brain questioning the intelligence of what they're doing

It's one thing to be sitting in the bar and say something stupid aloud.
But, to sit, type something, (presumably) check your post and then click send, That takes a little bit of time

[tblue37]

10. The fact that they do so is evidence of their stupidity and lack of judgment an impulse control.

Clearly such people should not have a gun, a badge, or a position of authority over others!

[Scruffy Rumbler]

9. We need to start "flocking"

these people. Make his whereabouts known when he is out in public and flash mob him with protesters. Let hundreds of people of all hues flock him day and night...peacefully...repeating "Black lives matter".

[tblue37]

11. +1. I think that should also happen to *any* cop who gets away with assaulting

or killing an unarmed person.

[heaven05]

13. he is still a coward

able to 'carry' or not ......may he find what he's looking for......

[Nitram]

14. The department did the right thing.

Cops have freedom of speech off duty, but not the freedom to threaten to shoot people.

[Blue_Tires]

16. k+r

[workinclasszero]

17. A monster hiding behind the protection of a shield eom

San Jose police officer on leave for controversial protest tweets

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