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sheshe2

(83,765 posts)
Wed Aug 2, 2017, 06:57 PM Aug 2017

***Warning this is sick.***

An Assistant Police Chief Shared This Racist Meme On Facebook



A Louisiana man entrusted to protect the people in his community has resigned from his position after sharing a disgusting, threatening meme on Facebook.


Wayne Welsh, an assistant chief at the Estherwood Police Department, shared a post Sunday depicting a woman holding a young girl’s head under water in a bathtub, with the caption, “When your daughters [sic] first crush is a little negro boy.”

Social media users grabbed a screenshot of the officer’s post and it quickly went viral. 


Welsh’s community was outraged, and though local media didn’t immediately release his identity, folks on the internet were happy to oblige: 




It’s not against the law to share something on Facebook. It’s social media. Internet,” he posted, before backpedaling with an apology. “Well, I’m sorry for what happen. Ya [sic] have a blessed day.”




More: www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/an-assistant-police-chief-shared-this-picture-on-facebook_us_5981ceb8e4b09d24e99438ad?xoi&ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009


No words. I have no words left.
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***Warning this is sick.*** (Original Post) sheshe2 Aug 2017 OP
It's really fucking sick. maveric Aug 2017 #1
'Twas ever thus. WhiskeyGrinder Aug 2017 #3
The only way to get rid of an abscess is to open it and drain out the pus. appleannie1943 Aug 2017 #62
I disagree mythology Aug 2017 #18
It was always here, yet with tRump... sheshe2 Aug 2017 #32
Yes. The haters are emboldened. we can do it Aug 2017 #41
Perhas Trumps bringing out all the sick racists might be a good thing Maraya1969 Aug 2017 #55
agree 1000 percent. demigoddess Aug 2017 #28
What's even sicker is the number of likes and retweets this shitbag's tweet got. GoCubsGo Aug 2017 #81
White people need to stop being surprised and horrified by this kind of stuff and start acting. WhiskeyGrinder Aug 2017 #2
I've been acting. Standing up, door knocking every election. we can do it Aug 2017 #43
Surprised, no. Horrified, always mountain grammy Aug 2017 #52
Um, white people can be "surprised and horrified"and also act.. whathehell Aug 2017 #77
Thank you, whathehell. sheshe2 Aug 2017 #79
You're very welcome, SheShe2 whathehell Aug 2017 #83
sometimes it is just to hard to answer some posters. sheshe2 Aug 2017 #86
Yes, I know what you mean.. whathehell Aug 2017 #87
..."and have a blessed day"... jpak Aug 2017 #4
as he advocates drowning one's own daughter for having a crush on a black boy. sheshe2 Aug 2017 #12
Yeah because he knows God is with him on this hate lunasun Aug 2017 #46
That's the xian "Fuck you." Iggo Aug 2017 #54
A blessed day is when this POS goes home to Satan dalton99a Aug 2017 #5
The translation is... Major Nikon Aug 2017 #16
Yep, they're the worst dalton99a Aug 2017 #21
no... this is a kind of sarcasm... lapfog_1 Aug 2017 #53
2017 gratuitous Aug 2017 #6
Sorry he got outed that's what he's sorry about . Nothing else lunasun Aug 2017 #48
You are right, lunasun. sheshe2 Aug 2017 #56
What the MSM steadfastly ignores is the infiltration of Law Enforcement by White Supremacists CakeGrrl Aug 2017 #7
+1 dalton99a Aug 2017 #11
In the 20s & 30s most of LA's city government was KKK MindPilot Aug 2017 #24
This. The SPLC and other watchers know that Ilsa Aug 2017 #37
And that's why Jefferson BEAUREGARD Sessions was selected as AG. CakeGrrl Aug 2017 #73
DWBs and WWBs citations were a favorite sport of cops in my home town. hunter Aug 2017 #38
Also the military, where they get "trained". nt m-lekktor Aug 2017 #50
+1 uponit7771 Aug 2017 #66
Cops. Wonderful. Iggo Aug 2017 #8
Thanks, Trump, for empowering these assholes! Initech Aug 2017 #9
Precisely malaise Aug 2017 #20
How many voted for Trump? How many of them are rabid racists like this? Eliot Rosewater Aug 2017 #10
I bet they're lining up to shake his hands dalton99a Aug 2017 #14
Convinced, despite undeniable mountains of proof, that immigrants Eliot Rosewater Aug 2017 #15
Damn winetourdriver01 Aug 2017 #13
I've got words, just none I'm willing to put in writing Phoenix61 Aug 2017 #17
Recommended. guillaumeb Aug 2017 #19
One, that despite the weak apology... sheshe2 Aug 2017 #27
And cops wonder why we the public don't like them much. MindPilot Aug 2017 #22
Thats fucked up Julie24 Aug 2017 #23
and too stupid to hide it? MindPilot Aug 2017 #25
Good Grief!!! calimary Aug 2017 #26
Yep. sheshe2 Aug 2017 #31
Yes this is very sick Gothmog Aug 2017 #29
I'm Almost To The Point Of Being Unshockable Me. Aug 2017 #59
he got canned. drray23 Aug 2017 #30
Yes he did, POS! sheshe2 Aug 2017 #36
Then you have some white people mercuryblues Aug 2017 #49
"they either tolerated this or agree with it." sheshe2 Aug 2017 #68
I'm going to throw up. Honest to gawd I'm embarrassed to be white. we can do it Aug 2017 #33
I am with you there. sheshe2 Aug 2017 #35
We gotta stay together. we can do it Aug 2017 #42
Yes, we do, we can do it. sheshe2 Aug 2017 #72
Me too. Nt lostnfound Aug 2017 #44
WTF? smirkymonkey Aug 2017 #34
Well, look what crawled out from under that rock. byronius Aug 2017 #39
They want it to be the 1950s again mcar Aug 2017 #40
I can't believe this shit is real. liberalnarb Aug 2017 #45
Ya have a blessed day rpannier Aug 2017 #47
bastard Racists... yuiyoshida Aug 2017 #51
"Ya [sic] have a blessed day." Yeah, right, Fuck You!!! n/t RKP5637 Aug 2017 #57
Sad. Snackshack Aug 2017 #58
"Resigned from his position" (ass. ch.). Or resigned from his police force & policing forever? Bernardo de La Paz Aug 2017 #60
Sick fuck should never have been an officer to begin with. raven mad Aug 2017 #61
Represent s a lot of the GOP Johnny2X2X Aug 2017 #63
I have visions of doing that to the entire Right Wing n/t apkhgp Aug 2017 #64
Anyone surprised if this guy doesn't try & shoot a "little negro boy" before he gives up his badge? uponit7771 Aug 2017 #65
Yeah, well, asshole, it might not be illegal to post such vile things on your Facebook page, but catbyte Aug 2017 #67
racist asshole...blessed day? spanone Aug 2017 #69
Yup. sheshe2 Aug 2017 #70
I'm sorry, but it's always down South or in another shithole red state mreilly Aug 2017 #71
I have plenty of words. most of them would net me a visit from the suits. niyad Aug 2017 #74
Me too, niyad. sheshe2 Aug 2017 #80
But...but..he's 'pro-life' so it's okay workinclasszero Aug 2017 #75
SMH Solly Mack Aug 2017 #76
Eww... That's big time ugly. whathehell Aug 2017 #78
Good lord. progressoid Aug 2017 #82
Hooo weeee Egnever Aug 2017 #84
SMH Catherine Vincent Aug 2017 #85
Well....it ain't HUGE..... Estherwood, Louisiana....population... 977 .....nt Stuart G Aug 2017 #88

appleannie1943

(1,303 posts)
62. The only way to get rid of an abscess is to open it and drain out the pus.
Wed Aug 2, 2017, 09:50 PM
Aug 2017

The fact that when it sees the light of day people are heating it to kill the germs instead of fertilizing it makes me hopeful that when this presidency is over, this country will come out growing roses instead of skunk cabbage.

 

mythology

(9,527 posts)
18. I disagree
Wed Aug 2, 2017, 07:15 PM
Aug 2017

There was plenty of this shit before. Now it gets more notice partially because of social media but also partially because more people are willing to say no to it.

Maraya1969

(22,480 posts)
55. Perhas Trumps bringing out all the sick racists might be a good thing
Wed Aug 2, 2017, 09:04 PM
Aug 2017

We really have come a long way in this country in fighting racism of all kinds and maybe it is a good thing when one of the ones holding on to old sick views are openly shunned when caught.

Maybe that is part of the way this illness is healed. I bet this guy is going to do some thinking after losing his job for being a stupid ass.

GoCubsGo

(32,083 posts)
81. What's even sicker is the number of likes and retweets this shitbag's tweet got.
Thu Aug 3, 2017, 02:46 PM
Aug 2017

I'm sure some of it is probably bots, but I have little doubt most of it is actual people. There are lots of them in my town who are just like him.

WhiskeyGrinder

(22,345 posts)
2. White people need to stop being surprised and horrified by this kind of stuff and start acting.
Wed Aug 2, 2017, 07:00 PM
Aug 2017

It's also important to not wait for your sheriff or chief of police to do something racist before you understand what's going on in your own community.

whathehell

(29,067 posts)
77. Um, white people can be "surprised and horrified"and also act..
Thu Aug 3, 2017, 02:13 PM
Aug 2017

It's not a binary situation...Just a thought.

sheshe2

(83,765 posts)
12. as he advocates drowning one's own daughter for having a crush on a black boy.
Wed Aug 2, 2017, 07:07 PM
Aug 2017

Yes, that got to me too, jpak.

Major Nikon

(36,827 posts)
16. The translation is...
Wed Aug 2, 2017, 07:14 PM
Aug 2017

I'm a Christian, so you must forgive me. It's part of the warped theology. It's kinda like contractors who put a fish symbol on their truck so after they have screwed you and are driving off, you must forgive them.

lapfog_1

(29,204 posts)
53. no... this is a kind of sarcasm...
Wed Aug 2, 2017, 09:01 PM
Aug 2017

more like "have a blessed day" you f'ing snowflake. I'm having to write this apology because someone forced me to and I hate all you libtards who don't understand that I was just sharing an inside "joke" with my fellow white racists.

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
6. 2017
Wed Aug 2, 2017, 07:04 PM
Aug 2017

20 fucking 17, and we still have this shit to put up with. I wonder if Chief Justice Roberts would like to revisit his stupid-ass ruling in Shelby County, where he seems to think that America's all not-racist now, and the pre-clearance requirements of Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act are no longer necessary.

2017, fer crissakes. At least Racist Welsh is "sorry for what happen," even if he isn't very definite about the "what."

CakeGrrl

(10,611 posts)
7. What the MSM steadfastly ignores is the infiltration of Law Enforcement by White Supremacists
Wed Aug 2, 2017, 07:05 PM
Aug 2017

It's nothing new.

Southern police forces were overtly in league with the KKK. There's been a later effort to fortify the Law Enforcement ranks less overtly.

During the 40's/50's, the LAPD specifically hired Jim Crow southern cops. The brutality against POC there was brought more into focus during the OJ trial.

They'll hide behind "Blue Lives Matter" and the protection of police unions, but they're most certainly out there.

Occasionally we get an accidental peek at their racist texts or accounts of people willing to step forward, but the MSM doesn't talk about it any more than they've discussed the overt support of Trump from the white nationalist faction. Never mind his own West Wing.

 

MindPilot

(12,693 posts)
24. In the 20s & 30s most of LA's city government was KKK
Wed Aug 2, 2017, 07:21 PM
Aug 2017

Including the mayor and police chief.

That spread down to San Diego too.

Ilsa

(61,695 posts)
37. This. The SPLC and other watchers know that
Wed Aug 2, 2017, 08:01 PM
Aug 2017

LE agencies are full of white supremacists and other bigots. I'm frightened to think about how far they'll go if the rules governing their behavior are ignored. Hell, they premeditatively leave their cameras off to try and get away with murder.

CakeGrrl

(10,611 posts)
73. And that's why Jefferson BEAUREGARD Sessions was selected as AG.
Thu Aug 3, 2017, 12:40 AM
Aug 2017

He was a Jim Crow menace during the height of the Civil Rights movement, and he's turned up like a bad penny to try to advance the white supremacist cause from one of the most powerful positions in government.

He's there to help enable cops like this and turn a blind eye to their crimes.

Of all the cretins in this administration, he's the one I'd like to see go out first.

hunter

(38,312 posts)
38. DWBs and WWBs citations were a favorite sport of cops in my home town.
Wed Aug 2, 2017, 08:02 PM
Aug 2017

That was one reason the town stayed 99 44/100 Ivory Soap white. It's still pretty close to that.

When my parents sold their house to a "Negro" man and his white bride all hell broke loose. The heads of some neighbors we'd previously believed nice decent people began to spin and spew green pea soup vomit. One was a neighbor who'd built a bicycle for me, me the cute blond haired blue eyed kid, when my parents had mentioned to him a bicycle wasn't yet in their budget. He hunted my parents down at our new house just to tell them they'd single-handedly set in motion the ruin of the entire neighborhood.

I fled that world as soon as I could and I've been a minority white guy in my community for most of my life now.

But I've still got white privileges and that makes me cringe sometimes, especially when some guy older than I am calls me "boss" or "sir" in a non-ironic non-sarcastic way. (People younger than me are usually just trying to yank my chain and it makes me laugh.)

My own grandpa was upset that I was marrying, in his own words, "a Mexican girl" and he boycotted our wedding because men in his white wild west family just didn't do that. But WTF did his family know, they were still hiding the Irish in them. To his credit my grandpa got over it.





Eliot Rosewater

(31,112 posts)
15. Convinced, despite undeniable mountains of proof, that immigrants
Wed Aug 2, 2017, 07:14 PM
Aug 2017

documented or not have ZERO impact on their jobs, income, life, they persist with their ignorance.

Sad that it is 2017 and we are still talking about this.

But, as bad as this ALL is, surely it is better than ... ...

oops, there I go again

or how does that Brittany Spears song go?

Phoenix61

(17,006 posts)
17. I've got words, just none I'm willing to put in writing
Wed Aug 2, 2017, 07:15 PM
Aug 2017

What a POS and definitely shouldn't be in law enforcement.

guillaumeb

(42,641 posts)
19. Recommended.
Wed Aug 2, 2017, 07:16 PM
Aug 2017

Thank you sheshe for shining a light on this example of a sickness that is openly spreading. And from a police department official no less!

 

MindPilot

(12,693 posts)
22. And cops wonder why we the public don't like them much.
Wed Aug 2, 2017, 07:19 PM
Aug 2017

"You shouldn't fear us if you haven't done anything wrong." -- the mantra of authoritarians everywhere.

Racist, christian and a fucking pig. A waste of oxygen times 3.

Me.

(35,454 posts)
59. I'm Almost To The Point Of Being Unshockable
Wed Aug 2, 2017, 09:14 PM
Aug 2017

THe only positive is that the roaches are creeping right into the open. Let's get the spray out.

sheshe2

(83,765 posts)
36. Yes he did, POS!
Wed Aug 2, 2017, 07:59 PM
Aug 2017
He failed to understand that it’s not OK for a law enforcement officer, especially a high-ranking one, to indulge in racism while enforcing the law in the community they denigrate.


from your link.

mercuryblues

(14,531 posts)
49. Then you have some white people
Wed Aug 2, 2017, 08:48 PM
Aug 2017

fail to understand how a police "officer' like this can not police the community he degenerated. They believe and defend the officer who shoots the unarmed black person.

What this cop posted on his FB page didn't come out of nowhere. If he felt confident enough to post that, without expecting any back lash over it, he has said and done racist shit his whole life. He no doubt has been doing this around his coworkers since day 1, they either tolerated this or agree with it. The problem is he got caught by someone and word spread.

Snackshack

(2,541 posts)
58. Sad.
Wed Aug 2, 2017, 09:13 PM
Aug 2017

Police across this country need to take a hard look at themselves and their departments and clean house. There are a lot of good police out there but there are also a lot of bad ones and they need to be removed from their positions.

I listen to a podcast by Joe Rogan and he has 2 podcast with a retired cop from Baltimore that is eye opening. Especially given the recent body cam videos that have come out showing those two Baltimore cops planting evidence...(allegedly). The retired cops name is Micheal Wood.

Johnny2X2X

(19,066 posts)
63. Represent s a lot of the GOP
Wed Aug 2, 2017, 09:56 PM
Aug 2017

This guy represents somewhere between 35% and 60% of Republican voters. And that's giving a lot of them the benefit of the doubt.

catbyte

(34,386 posts)
67. Yeah, well, asshole, it might not be illegal to post such vile things on your Facebook page, but
Wed Aug 2, 2017, 10:43 PM
Aug 2017

it doesn't give you the right to post them without consequences. He posted his opinion; others are posting theirs, hence him finding himself canned. Maybe the bigots in Cult45* will open up a GoFundMe page for him.

These goddamned artificial victims always piss me off to no end. They live so far inside that despicable AltShit-Right bubble that they think they can post any old shit without consequence. Well, welcome to the real world, asshole.

He's posted other hideously racist things on his page. Sadly, I guess it took him joking about killing a White child that did him in. And to think he was a LeO is just horrific. It could call into question every minority arrest he's ever made, as well it should.

 

mreilly

(2,120 posts)
71. I'm sorry, but it's always down South or in another shithole red state
Thu Aug 3, 2017, 12:32 AM
Aug 2017

... if you live in one of these places and you're a progressive you're excluded from this rant.

I see this constantly from the sewer Southern states/red states like Indiana and Ohio and so forth. These states are fucking dumpsters.

These are garbage shithole states we need to have nothing to do with. I live in the blue Northeast and there are enough right-wing assholes whining that it should always be about them 24/7/365 and never about anyone else, thank you very much.

If you're a progressive and you live there, God bless you. If you're a right-winger, sink with your shithole state. Only place I EVER plan to live is Massachusetts since we have some sense here.

 

Egnever

(21,506 posts)
84. Hooo weeee
Thu Aug 3, 2017, 06:22 PM
Aug 2017

WTF.

I realize that is racist as fuck but imagine what his poor daughter goes through.

I really just don't get going through life scared of people that don't look like you. Seems like a whole lot of wasted energy.

I hope his daughter escapes safely.

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