#RolandMartinUnfiltered - Outrageous! Louisiana Cop Posts On Facebook That Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Should Be Shot

Episode Date: July 27, 2019

A Louisiana police officer suggested that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez should be shot on Facebook. Charlie Rispoli, a 14-year veteran of the Gretna police department called her a vile idiot in the incendiary social media post. Since posting the dangerous comment, Rispoli has deactivated his Facebook account but, nothing you post on Facebook ever goes away. Screenshots of this post have been circulating the internet. As a result of the post, he and another officer who liked the post have been fired. has been fired. Watch the 7.22.19 edition of #RolandMartinUnfiltered https://youtu.be/_j9ZEgutDHU - #RolandMartinUnfiltered partner: 420 Real Estate, LLC To invest in 420 Real Estate’s legal Hemp-CBD Crowdfunding Campaign go to http://marijuanastock.org Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This is an i, crazy story. Louisiana police officer suggested that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, congresswoman from New York, should be shot on Facebook. Charlie Rispoli, a 14-year veteran of the police department in Gretna, Louisiana, called her a vile idiot. He deactivated his Facebook account, but nothing you post on Facebook goes away. Folks, he has now been fired, well as I need to double check. I think the office is another officer who liked his post. And I believe that he's either been fired or suspended. I'm going to pull up in one second. I want to go to Mustafa first on this. I mean, what you have here, Mustafa, here you have police officers. This is a cop. This is a cop who is angry with the congressman oqueso cortez and and i read i saw

a story today apparently that fox news has mentioned her name three times as many times as her name has been mentioned on msnbc and on uh cnn as well and so the right is is having so much hatred toward this woman. And now, of course, with Donald Trump attacking the squad, that is, Cleza Cortez, Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley, Rashida Tlaib, and Ilhan Omar, you have folks who literally are endangering these people's lives. This is a cop saying she should be killed. Yeah, it's the same thing that has been going on now for a while where we continue to dehumanize people

so that then they can justify these types of actions, whether these actions are through words or through deeds. We know how this can play out. We saw how this played out in Charleston with the Charleston shooter where he was surrounding himself with this type of negativity and how he felt that he had the right to be able to go in. And I actually talked the other day about folks ask him, you know, after the murder was over, after he had been convicted, if he had any remorse.

And he said he would do the same thing again. So when we allow these officers to be able to say these types of things, it just ties into this sort of atmosphere of hate that the administration, and not just the administration and others, continue to place on our country. And it puts a very, very dangerous scenario that we unfortunately continue to see folks speaking out in these negative ways, speaking out about violence and not really being checked. So it's good to hear that this officer has now been fired because he should have been fired right away. In fact, Avis, both police officers have indeed been fired. The one who liked the post as well.

This is concerning because, again, the hatred that is being cast towards Ocasio-Cortez, being cast toward these other women, this could lead to, again, something tragic happen. Let's not forget, Congresswoman Gabby Giffords was almost assassinated outside of a grocery store by this deranged man. That's what we're dealing with. When people attack them the way they do, Avis, this could have serious repercussions. Absolutely, it could have serious repercussions.

And it's especially appalling that this is a police officer. But, you know, it's kind of in line with what we've seen recently with all these studies of the social media activities of police officers across the country, where apparently a great deal of them are engaged in very violent discussions online that are specifically targeting individuals. This was particularly egregious because you're targeting this congresswoman. But you're absolutely right.

What we're seeing is not only Fox News that specifically demonizes her constantly, but also, clearly, Trump demonizes her and now the entire quote-unquote squad in the same way. And what they're ultimately doing is they are radicalizing a white supremacist element in this nation that is growing and that is violent. Let's not forget that this is a very violent group of people. The number one terrorists in America are white men. When you look at mass shootings, who does it? It is primarily white men. And so the fact that he's a white man with a badge makes it that much more dangerous because we also know that oftentimes police will just protect each other. I am super shocked that he was fired and as well as someone else. I am glad it happened

because usually that accountability isn't there. You look at what's happened recently with Arizona, for example, where a number of police officers were caught with putting very racist and also violent statements and memes on Facebook. And instead of any of them facing any sort of blowback because of that in terms of disciplinary action, you have the police union out here talking about they're going to hire a firm that's going to scrub their social media activity, which means that we won't even know in the future what policemen are engaged in this violent behavior, because I would argue that there's probably not much difference between someone who would write something like that on Facebook, have a gun at his side each and every day, and possibly could lose his temper and act in a very dangerous way, particularly towards

people of color. And that is what ends up in the situations that we see time and time again with unarmed people dead. Mark Thompson, again, it should be of grave concern to anybody when you have folks who are making these threats, but to have police officers who are doing this. We also know now the 328 cops, which was a very small sample, folks uncovered violent takes, racist comments as well. People should be concerned about this. And we've also seen in the past that lately, and this is not to say all military and all law enforcement are this way,

but there are those who are white nationalists who are attracted to military and law enforcement careers. That's just a fact. I want to be clear. Not all military and law enforcement are white nationalists, but many white nationalists want to be military and law enforcement. And we've been saying all along that these institutions need to figure out ways to weed out those bad apples early on to even have an early detection system. But you're right. If something were to happen to any member of the squad the way it happened to Gabby Giffords, that would be a tragedy. And if you or I were to do something like that or encourage people to do something like that, we'd be accused of incitement. Why isn't Trump accused of incitement?

Second of all, I will say this. I'm glad the cop got fired. Now, if a cop can be fired for saying a member of Congress should be shot, why can't cops be fired for outright shooting black people or killing black people or choking them to death? That's the only other question I have. That's my reflection on AOC. But what kind of system do we live in where someone making a threat on Facebook, which is horrible, can be fired as he should have been? But someone who carries out a violent act against another human being has to go through an administrative review. And we have to wait and see what all the results are. Tired of that.

And frankly, you know, that's the place we put Buttigieg and de Blasio in right now. But trust and believe, if a cop had done something on those forces, they would have been fired, too. Mustafa, what we have to deal with, what we have to deal with here, Mustafa, is that they're angry. They're angry at these sisters. They're angry at these freshmen because they're challenging white supremacy. And also they're not backing down. They're in their face. That's what you're challenging white supremacy. And also, they're not backing down. They're in their face. That's what you're dealing with here.

Right. They are actually utilizing their power. They are standing up for what they believe in. They're standing up for the communities that have been disproportionately impacted from both police brutality and a number of other issues. And that causes those who have been in power fear. They're actually afraid of these sisters who continue to show that they are willing to stand up and push back. And as President Johnson said, when we fight, we win.

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