Please do not report crimes on this page or submit information relating to crimes on this page. The same officer also made posts threatening lawbreakers with sexual assault and celebrating violence against “hippies.”A spokesperson with the St. Louis police department said they had forwarded the information regarding the post disparaging Muslims to their Internal Affairs division.
Michael Melvin, who goes by Michael Vincent on Facebook, posted a photo in 2015 mocking the Black Lives Matter movement.The image showed a large bulletin board adorned with printouts of dogs with handwritten captions. Such offenses can include: Subscribe to our newsletter.The Chicago Police Department has tried unsuccessfully to fire an officer whose own commander complained of his “Police officers saying bigoted and racist things online has been an issue since the beginning of social media. The Facebook posts were not specifically connected to incidents that were the subject of lawsuits, though in some cases the officers were supporting conduct, like using Tasers to subdue suspects, that could mirror the kind of conduct raised in complaints.Philadelphia Officer Christian Fenico, who appears on Facebook under the name Chris Joseph and posted the “should have shot him” comment in September 2013, has twice been accused of excessive and unprovoked force. In both cases, men claimed that he choked them. The locations were chosen to achieve a range of geography and size.The troubling posts were not limited to the large departments. What was never really captured was the scope of problematic online posts from police officers. The department said that in response it had opened an investigation.“We have reviewed the social media transcriptions you provided, and find many of them to be not only incongruent with our standards and policies, but also troubling on a human level,” Commissioner Richard Ross said in a statement.According to a federal lawsuit, Officer Milord Celce Jr. responded to a report of a verbal dispute in May 2013. But a new review of police behavior on Facebook documents the systemic nature of the conduct across several departments. “My taser would’ve had him dancing.”The lawsuits involving five officers cost Philadelphia more than $1.3 million, not including settlements for undisclosed amounts.In November 2017, Palma — who reposted a racist meme and called protesters “scum” — referenced a philly.com article that detailed complaints that an officer, whose profile picture showed her in uniform, had “The Media is watching what we put on Facebook,” Palma warned.Days later, most of his Facebook posts became private.A year ago, Philadelphia lawyer Emily Baker-White approached Injustice Watch about the extensive original examination she had undertaken along with other members of the Plain View Project team that she created. The behavior was especially scrutinized after the Black Lives Matter movement blasted into the national conversation — and that scrutiny has continued ever after that movement began The project sought to compile posts, comments, and other public activity that could undermine public trust in the police and reinforce the views of critics, especially in minority communities, that the police are not there to protect them.The entire database from our investigation is open to explore. I hate every last one of them.”The city paid $110,000 to settle a case brought by a man who said Fenico came to his home responding to a call and then beat him, breaking his nose, and choking him to unconsciousness even after his partner tried to pull him away, saying, “that’s enough,” the lawsuit said.Another man’s lawsuit described the trouble that ensued after the family called police to report that a driver had hit a family member’s car and then attempted to flee.