Ohio Sheriff's Lieutenant in hot water after social posts; "I am sorry. If you support the Democratic Party, I will not help you"

Daily reminder police in USA don't have to do anything to protect people

https://www.findlaw.com/legalblogs/law-and-life/do-the-police-have-an-obligation-to-protect-you/

The answer is no.

In the 1981 case Warren v. District of Columbia, the D.C. Court of Appeals held that police have a general "public duty," but that "no specific legal duty exists" unless there is a special relationship between an officer and an individual, such as a person in custody.

The U.S. Supreme Court has also ruled that police have no specific obligation to protect. In its 1989 decision in DeShaney v. Winnebago County Department of Social Services, the justices ruled that a social services department had no duty to protect a young boy from his abusive father. In 2005'sCastle Rock v. Gonzales, a woman sued the police for failing to protect her from her husband after he violated a restraining order and abducted and killed their three children. Justices said the police had no such duty.

Most recently, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit upheld a lower court ruling that police could not be held liable for failing to protect students in the 2018 shooting that claimed 17 lives at Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.

Fire him. Anything less is unacceptable.

Politically motivated threat of violence? What was the term for this again?

The “end of days”? So sick of these deranged religious fanatics.

He sure has been happy taking money from the government throughout the Biden administration though

Yeah that's not actually how a "job" works, Bubba.

Conservatism should immediately disqualify a candidate from any position of authority.

Conservatism + Power = Fascism

This has been true throughout all of human history.

I'm starting to think we might have a law enforcement problem in the US.

Fire his ass and replace him with someone who takes his oath of office seriously.

Sounds like a lawsuit waiting to happen.

As soon as a democrat voter has an issue woth a police response, all they have to do is claim bias.

Don't they need to take some kind of Oath?

Sheriff should absolutely not be elected.

This is why.

Sounds like an endorsement to take the law into your own hands and shoot the marauders yourself

Sheriff is an elected position so nobody should be shocked that a bastard cop would go there

Gee, let's see how this plays out [FTA]:

Chief Deputy Mike Young sent a statement to the news station that said, in part, the Office agrees the comments made were highly inappropriate and do not reflect the Sheriff’s Office’s delivery of service to all residents, regardless of their voting preference. He stated that the station and Lt. Rodgers would work especially hard to regain the public’s trust.

"Lt. Rodgers would work especially hard to regain the public's trust." As in, 'regain it in the future'? So, pretty much no consequences then.

It is also suggested that a possible medical issue is involved in Rodgers’ actions.

Of course there's some kind of excuse - that's not what I meant, you're taking it out of context, you're twisting my words - or, in this case where there's no ambiguity, 'It must have been the drugs - but only the legal drugs, not any illegal drugs that might impact my career!'

WHIO obtained an investigative file and discovered in an inter-office communication with supervisors that Rodgers wrote, “I do not remember writing these posts or deleting any posts.”

Of course he doesn't. If he "remembered", he'd have to explain why he didn't clean them up afterward.

The file also indicates that Rodgers is prescribed sleeping medication, which Rodgers documented, “It does cause some of my communication to be ‘out of character’ which is a documented side effect.”

Here's the thing: afaik, sleep aids don't change your character, they just remove filters, so it's likely be does feel this way and just doesn't want to face the consequences of what he says. Secondly, again, he didn't clean it up afterward. If you know it 'causes some communication to be out of character', then wtf aren't you double-checking what's been posted? And aren't the posts written a little too coherently for someone spaced out on sleep meds?

According to WHIO, the Sheriff’s Office apologized for Rodgers’ behavior and said he received a written reprimand for violating the department’s social media policy and will remain on duty.

Oh, no! Not a one hour meeting and a written reprimand! The horrors!!

sounds like someone needs a psych eval before they get their badge back.

"end of days" doesn't ring through as a person with their full mental faculties at their disposal.

The entire concept of sheriffs should be abolished. They hold outrageous amounts of unchecked power that does not come under the same level of scrutiny as a normal municipal/state police officer.

ACAB

I will not help you survive the end of days

Prepper failing to understand that his dumbass bravado is gonna lead to him getting clapped by some 12 year old's pressure cooker <72 hours into any sort of apocalyptic event

And nothing will be done about this literally fascist. Please send help America in trouble and us leftist need to get arned.

Police telling Democrats they won't help them in case of Emergency is PROOF that DEMOCRATS need to TONE DOWN Their Rhetoric!

Good god that pic

We know.

Cops never helping anyone to begin with aside...

He takes thumbnail to another level.

Why do these people all look the same?

"To serve and protect" the taste of boot