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TexasTowelie

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Sat Mar 3, 2018, 05:16 AM Mar 2018

Denver Mayor's 'inappropriate' texts to female cop: 'You look sexy', ever taken 'pole dancing' class

Denver Mayor’s ‘inappropriate’ texts to female cop: ‘You look sexy,’ ever taken ‘pole dancing’ classes?

Denver Mayor Michael Hancock sent suggestive text messages to a police officer on his security detail during his first year in office, behavior he now acknowledges as “inappropriate” six years later after the detective alleged in a new interview that she suffered sexual harassment.

In several text messages from 2012 that the Denver police officer provided — and which Hancock did not dispute — the mayor told her that she made it hard for him to concentrate at work. After spotting her on TV at a Denver Nuggets game, he texted: “You look sexy in all that black.” Another time, he complimented her haircut and said: “You make it hard on a brotha to keep it correct every day.”

Another text asked her about pole-dancing classes: “So I just watched this story on women taking pole dancing classes. Have you ever taken one? Why do women take the course? If not have you ever considered taking one and why? Your thoughts?” When she didn’t respond, the officer said, she received a followup text from Hancock: “Be careful, I’m curious. LOL!”

Detective Leslie Branch-Wise spoke publicly for the first time Tuesday night in an exclusive interview aired by Denver7, the television partner of The Denver Post.

Read more: https://www.denverpost.com/2018/02/27/denver-mayor-michael-hancock-text-messages/
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Denver Mayor's 'inappropriate' texts to female cop: 'You look sexy', ever taken 'pole dancing' class (Original Post) TexasTowelie Mar 2018 OP
Do men think today anything goes, so they can do or say anything? And women just think' how great??' bobbieinok Mar 2018 #1
In my experience some of them always did. Like for millennia. And are shocked these Squinch Mar 2018 #3
This message was self-deleted by its author bobbieinok Mar 2018 #2
Regardless of his party, SHAME ON HIM. But he is a DEMOCRAT! CurtEastPoint Mar 2018 #4

Squinch

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3. In my experience some of them always did. Like for millennia. And are shocked these
Sat Mar 3, 2018, 08:13 AM
Mar 2018

days to find that women despise it.

It tends to be the kind of man who thinks women are more appliance than human. And there are a lot of them.

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