Police chief ousted after calling Black Lives Matter a 'terrorist group'

[portlander23]

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Police chief ousted after calling Black Lives Matter a 'terrorist group'

A North Carolina police chief is out of a job after he called Black Lives Matter a "terrorist group" in a controversial Facebook post.

According to The Associated Press, Surf City's town council voted Tuesday to approve the retirement of Police Chief Mike Halstead.

"I was thrown under the bus for expressing my 1st amendment rights and speaking the truth and concerns for law enforcement," he wrote early Wednesday on Facebook.

The move came after Halstead was criticized for his Sept. 3 Facebook post slamming the Black Lives Matter movement.

"This Black Lives Matter group is nothing more than an American born terrorist group brought on by the lie of the 'hands up don't shoot' during the criminal thug Michael Brown incident," he reportedly wrote in the post, which was later deleted.

"I have instructed my officers to be vigilant, if threatened take appropriate action," he also wrote. "If that means shoot a thug, then do it and answer for it while you are still alive not dead."

... something about a door, an ass, and the way out.

[Raster]

1. The new American vocabulary

Young Black Man = Thug

"If that means shoot a thug, then do it and answer for it while you are still alive not dead."
Translation: Just shoot him. We can doctor the evidence later.

[Cracklin Charlie]

5. New vocabulary?

There is nothing new about this little tenet of racism. The "angry black man" has been with us for generations.

It is almost laughable how they keep trotting out the same old fear triggers again and again. Idiots.

The politics of hate...a loser's game.

[brer cat]

2. Wow.

What a racist pos. Good to see that the town council was ready to show him the door.

[nadinbrzezinski]

3. Ah yes, it is a problem...

especially when policing is actually at the safest moment it has been in well historic memory.

[cui bono]

6. The police are a terrorist group.

And that's the truth.

[Jamastiene]

7. There is also an NC mayoral candidate that promises to arrest gay

people based on some old ass NC law that the SCOTUS has long since rendered obsolete.

NC can be counted on to prove me right, time and again. There are way too many bigoted assholes here.

[marym625]

8. Well, I hope the door hits him on the ass, hard, on his way out