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TexasTowelie

(116,809 posts)
Tue Feb 2, 2021, 02:04 AM Feb 2021

Michigan police officer posts threatening remark on Facebook days after being fired

A northern Michigan police officer recently fired for allegedly getting in a physical altercation with the police chief posted a threatening remark on social media days later.

St. Ignace Police fired officer Richard Cullen on Friday, a few months after he was placed on leave for the altercation with Chief Tony Brown.

Cullen, who was deployed in Afghanistan as a training coordinator for the Department of Defense, posted on Facebook Sunday, referring to his time overseas: “I experienced and learned more in that year+ than I did the entire 20 year duration of my now quasi closed Law Enforcement career. There’s no doubt I will call those lessons back into service as I enter a new Jihad against my oppugnant. #thinbluelinestrong #imcomingforyou”

St. Ignace Councilman Luke Paquin, Mayor Connie Litzner and Police Chief Brown told the Free Press that some city officials and residents perceive the post as a threat.

Read more: https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2021/02/01/st-ignace-police-richard-cullen-facebook/4342738001/

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Michigan police officer posts threatening remark on Facebook days after being fired (Original Post) TexasTowelie Feb 2021 OP
What kind of lawyer is going to be able to defend that? dchill Feb 2021 #1
Quit "perceiving" so much and make this man accountable. FFS. Guilded Lilly Feb 2021 #2
Yeah buddy LSFL Feb 2021 #3

LSFL

(1,112 posts)
3. Yeah buddy
Tue Feb 2, 2021, 06:30 AM
Feb 2021

A lot of us learned a lot over there. I learned who the enemy was. You must have been out that day.

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