Futurama Fry

"2 Louisiana police officers fired over Facebook post suggesting Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez should be shot"

This would suggest that these 2 cops LIKED the idea of getting somebody killed. Her also being a member of the house of representatives, therefore representing a political party and a political idea could also imply these cops liked the idea of a political murder.

Now the party Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez represents nor her political ideals should not matter, the entire idea of cops supporting a political murder is downright disturbing at best.

I've been told that Louisiana is overall pretty much in favor of the Republicans and Ocasio-Cortez is a member of the Democrat party, so I can understand she's not exactly popular there, but that may not be of any importance at all.

Social Media has already ended many careers, and sometimes even for good reasons too.

Supplement: Reading the article itself once more I see I missed something: "Two police officers in Louisiana were fired Monday after one wrote a Facebook post suggesting Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez should be shot and the other liked it."

One of the cops was even the writer of that article... Perhaps suing that cop may even be in order if you ask me. I do consider the tweet itself a death threat... Now liking that is not very right for a cop to do, but writing one, goes way too far.

The writing part I agree with, although perhaps they should have had an opportunity to clarify and apologize? The liking part - maybe the other officer thought it was a joke or something.

Possible, but even as a joke, this is a bit of a wrong sign, and note that cops must be seen as an example. How can cops be credible when they threaten over social media or like threatening posts?

When the police loses credibility it will be harder to tell the civilians they should not violate the law? A cop has to give the right example. The impact it can have on society when cops do not behave is rather great. I can understand he's angry with Ocasio-Cortez, and he may express that anger also, but there is a limit, and when it comes to liking posts. I've met people who have a record and mostly they know all the cops better than the one in charge of the police, so I know by this experience. And since likes are public on most social media... well... That does bring the police in discredit.

When you are in a public function like that, your actions do have impact. Being a former moderator of several big communities, I could already see how people (particularly the ones who were close to getting banned) kept their eye on me. When you are a cop, where the violations you deal with are normally greater than when you are a site/chat/forum moderator, this counts even more....

https://www-m.cnn.com/2019/07/22/politics/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-greta-police-officers-fired/index.html?r=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnn.com%2F

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