Detroit News — A northern Michigan police officer has been suspended with pay after he was seen off-duty driving a pickup truck bearing a Confederate flag around a group protesting Republican Donald Trump’s election as president.
Traverse City police Chief Jeff O’Brien announced Michael Peters’ suspension Sunday after earlier saying an internal investigation was to start Monday to see if departmental rules were broken.
O’Brien tells the Traverse City Record-Eagle that Peters “is not working as a police officer.” He expects to meet with Peters on Monday.
He had confirmed that Peters was in a photo taken from Friday’s rally. The newspaper could not reach Peters for comment.
There have been several reports of threats, intimidation and racially charged violence around the country since Trump defeated Democrat Hillary Clinton in Tuesday’s presidential election.
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ht/ rob e.Apparently I’m supposed to be riled by some guy and his confederate flag truck at a protest where thugs are demanding, with violence, that an election be overturned?
This confederate flag story is a red herring, meant to imply that there is justification for the leftist riots because Trump’s “rise” is all part of the coming ethnic cleansing.
We’re getting to the point where the “official consensus” will be that Trump should be invalidated for the “good of the country,” you know, before anyone gets hurt.
And the ensuing pro-Trump protests, with violence, would be met with state sponsored tactical force, with shootings of the protestors, for the good of the country.
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On another note, my first introduction to the confederate flag was in the movie “In the Heat of the Night.” It was THIS SCENE.
Hollywood does a good job of indoctrination, no?
What if this scene was rewritten so that Poitier’s character was the mastermind of a group of radical leftist blacks that were planning the overthrow of the newly and lawfully elected American president?
Different scene now, no?
Traverse City!!?? ‘Nuff said.
The south has risen again!
But left wind public servants can relieve themselves on the flag, burn the flag, stomp on it, and no problem. Even if it’s on tax payers time. Got it.
If TPTB were to do anything so insane as to try to nullify Trump’s election, for sure there would be some heated protests and for sure there would be some protesters shot and killed. That would be terrible, and trivial.
The majority of Trump voters/supporters incensed enough to take action, and I estimate that number to be perhaps one million, would never be so stupid as to form mobs out in the open making themselves targets. No, there would definitely be killings but they would be one at a time, and the dead would be govt functionaries in positions where they had some role in either the election nullification, or the deployment of govt thugs against Trump supporters.
I cannot imagine anything worse right now than for the establishment to attempt any such coup d’etat.
Still trying to keep that progressive crap alive. They have not been paying attention.
Yeah – they are mad about the “ethinic cleansing” thing because their dreams of “cleansing out” the white male population is dying before their eyes. Transference much?
Racistry!
Ain’t that enough that he white, he a cop, he own a truck with big-ass tires? He gotta intensificate the situation by hanging a damn Confederate Flag on it too?
Y’alls racist racers that race!
Not only, should he be triple termite-ified and seperationistically removed from service, and he should have to drive a damn 88 Honda Accord with a crappy ass stereo.
Violation of his First Amendment rights by a governmental entity.