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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNorfolk fires police lieutenant who donated to accused vigilante Kyle Rittenhouse
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Gary Legum
@GaryLegum
The hometown is not fucking around.
Norfolk fires police lieutenant who donated to accused vigilante Kyle Rittenhouse
The message from Lt. William Kelly's account said to Rittenhouse: God bless. Thank you for your courage. Keep your head up. Youve done nothing wrong.
pilotonline.com
1:24 PM · Apr 20, 2021
Gary Legum
@GaryLegum
The hometown is not fucking around.
Norfolk fires police lieutenant who donated to accused vigilante Kyle Rittenhouse
The message from Lt. William Kelly's account said to Rittenhouse: God bless. Thank you for your courage. Keep your head up. Youve done nothing wrong.
pilotonline.com
1:24 PM · Apr 20, 2021
https://www.pilotonline.com/government/local/vp-nw-norfolk-rittenhouse-kelly-20210420-gtfbxgk2ojcxvgjlrlty2bgfky-story.html
NORFOLK The second in command of the Norfolk Police Departments internal affairs unit has been fired after he made what the city manager called egregious comments praising Kyle Rittenhouse, the white man accused of shooting and killing protestors last year.
Those comments violated departmental policies and erode the trust between the Norfolk Police Department and those they are sworn to serve, City Manager Chip Filer said in a statement Tuesday afternoon.
Filer and Police Chief Larry Boone did not say which specific policy Lt. William K. Kelly III violated. When asked, a police spokesman said he would check with the city attorney and did not respond further.
An anonymous donor in September gave $25 to the legal defense of Kyle Rittenhouse, but the donation came from Kellys official email address, according to data from the Christian crowdfunding website GiveSendGo that was hacked. The transparency group Distributed Denial of Secrets then shared the information with journalism organizations, including The Virginian-Pilot.
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Norfolk fires police lieutenant who donated to accused vigilante Kyle Rittenhouse (Original Post)
Nevilledog
Apr 2021
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LetMyPeopleVote
(145,554 posts)1. This makes me smile
soothsayer
(38,601 posts)2. Yasssssss!
Goodbye, hater of the US and what we stand for
LakeArenal
(28,845 posts)3. Yay. This is turning it to be a great historical day all around.
dalton99a
(81,570 posts)4. Cops who support murderers should be fired. They have no business being on the public payroll
exboyfil
(17,865 posts)5. About all those internal affairs cases
Maybe someone needs to reopen those files.
Phoenix61
(17,019 posts)6. Just a guess, personal use of work e-mail.
Probably has an automatic signature line so unauthorized officially endorsement of Kyle.