Thursday, March 23, 2006

Excerpts from messages posted on the Montgomery County police union's online message board:

On a protest after a police officer fatally shot a man in Silver Spring

August 2004: "In their country [in Africa] they would get shot for talking back to the police. By the way the international sign for 'get the [expletive] on the ground' is a gun pointed at you by a uniform police officer."

On illegal immigrants in the county

February 2006: "Every time some piece of [expletive] Salvadoran gangbanger gets stabbed or shot and taken to Shady Grove [Hospital] or Holy Cross [Hospital] . . . guess who pays. If you come here illegally, then you deserve no healthcare, no protection by the police, no response by the police."

On a black female officer

June 2004: "Bottom line is thank the 'fool(s)' in [headquarters] that want to diversify this department for political reasons. Now we have the 'GHETTO' officer. When you lower your standards this is what you get."

Response to an officer looking for an affordable car

February 2006: "Go ask [name of officer in Silver Spring] I'm pretty sure he has plenty of beaner cars that he has impounded!!!!!"

Response to a post in defense of an officer whose performance was criticized

February 2006: "Just like the mopes on the street and the lawyers in court, you are trying to pass HER responsibility onto someone else."

On whether there's racism in the department

March 2005: "No RACISTS??, then explain the NEO NAZI look that some [Silver Spring] officers have. Bald heads, black [battle dress uniform], and non-issued black flight jackets w/patches. Now that just conveys racism. Im white and I felt unsafe around them."