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An Assistant Police Chief Shared This Racist Meme On FacebookA 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 girls 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 officers post and it quickly went viral.
Welshs community was outraged, and though local media didnt immediately release his identity, folks on the internet were happy to oblige:
Link to tweet
Its not against the law to share something on Facebook. Its social media. Internet, he posted, before backpedaling with an apology. Well, Im 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.
maveric
(16,450 posts)Since dRump took the oath this kind of shit is happening more and more.
WhiskeyGrinder
(22,528 posts)appleannie1943
(1,303 posts)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)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.
sheshe2
(84,102 posts)It is escalating.
we can do it
(12,224 posts)Maraya1969
(22,527 posts)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.
demigoddess
(6,645 posts)what a piece of @#$%!!!
GoCubsGo
(32,103 posts)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
(22,528 posts)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.
we can do it
(12,224 posts)Speaking out.
mountain grammy
(26,677 posts)Diligent in our communities, mandatory. Pay attention. Act.
whathehell
(29,115 posts)It's not a binary situation...Just a thought.
sheshe2
(84,102 posts)whathehell
(29,115 posts)sheshe2
(84,102 posts)whathehell
(29,115 posts)jpak
(41,761 posts)sheshe2
(84,102 posts)Yes, that got to me too, jpak.
lunasun
(21,646 posts)Iggo
(47,604 posts)dalton99a
(81,709 posts)Major Nikon
(36,828 posts)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.
dalton99a
(81,709 posts)lapfog_1
(29,244 posts)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)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."
lunasun
(21,646 posts)sheshe2
(84,102 posts)CakeGrrl
(10,611 posts)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)Including the mayor and police chief.
That spread down to San Diego too.
Ilsa
(61,721 posts)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)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
(38,354 posts)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.
m-lekktor
(3,675 posts)Iggo
(47,604 posts)Let's everybody be mad at Colin Kaepernik, though.
Initech
(100,155 posts)malaise
(269,366 posts)The Con is encouraging this - can't wait until they LOCK HIM UP!
Eliot Rosewater
(31,158 posts)LOTS of them.
dalton99a
(81,709 posts)Eliot Rosewater
(31,158 posts)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?
winetourdriver01
(1,154 posts)I love it when these fools step on their own dicks..
Phoenix61
(17,028 posts)What a POS and definitely shouldn't be in law enforcement.
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)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!
sheshe2
(84,102 posts)Only really cares that he was caught, guill.
MindPilot
(12,693 posts)"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.
Julie24
(2 posts)Who would be that racist?!
MindPilot
(12,693 posts)A cop.
calimary
(81,612 posts)Gothmog
(146,038 posts)Me.
(35,454 posts)THe only positive is that the roaches are creeping right into the open. Let's get the spray out.
drray23
(7,638 posts)sheshe2
(84,102 posts)from your link.
mercuryblues
(14,565 posts)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.
sheshe2
(84,102 posts)They tolerated it and agreed. Fugger got caught.
we can do it
(12,224 posts)sheshe2
(84,102 posts)we can do it
(12,224 posts)sheshe2
(84,102 posts)lostnfound
(16,203 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Just WTF! This is just sick beyond belief! How do people get this way?
byronius
(7,414 posts)Aaaaaannnd gone. Squish.
mcar
(42,480 posts)liberalnarb
(4,532 posts)Still wondering if I may wake up from this nightmare.
rpannier
(24,353 posts)Love how he tries to get all Biblicly with everyone to seem less a loser
yuiyoshida
(41,874 posts)卑劣な人種差別主義者. 死んでください.
RKP5637
(67,112 posts)Snackshack
(2,541 posts)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.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,089 posts)raven mad
(4,940 posts)Johnny2X2X
(19,332 posts)This guy represents somewhere between 35% and 60% of Republican voters. And that's giving a lot of them the benefit of the doubt.
apkhgp
(1,068 posts)uponit7771
(90,378 posts)catbyte
(34,557 posts)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.
spanone
(135,958 posts)fuck you welsh
It is now that they are gone. Fugging racist POS.
mreilly
(2,120 posts)... 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.
niyad
(114,012 posts)sheshe2
(84,102 posts)workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)Solly Mack
(90,803 posts)whathehell
(29,115 posts)progressoid
(50,034 posts)WTF has happened to us.
Egnever
(21,506 posts)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.
Catherine Vincent
(34,491 posts)And this is my birth state.