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rinselberg
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JAN 27, 04:59 PM
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"Free speech has consequences"
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randye
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JAN 27, 05:09 PM
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| quote | Originally posted by rinselberg:
"Free speech has consequences" |
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So does an inability to communicate concisely and effectively.
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Hudini
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JAN 27, 05:55 PM
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| quote | Originally posted by randye:
So does an inability to communicate concisely and effectively. |
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+1[This message has been edited by Hudini (edited 01-27-2021).]
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jdv
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JAN 27, 08:33 PM
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rinselberg
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JAN 28, 04:22 PM
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This is the second part of my longer message. This is directly on the declared topic about the NYPD. The first part was meta-discussion about my reaction to the emergence of a discussion that I hadn't anticipated; i.e., the meta topic.
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I think this is a real "issue" with the NYPD and this particular and particularly senior and important police officer.
I am disinclined to think that the investigation by the New York City Council's Oversight and Investigations Division is bureaucracy out of control, exceeding its proper remit, or is somehow symptomatic of "Marxism."
| quote | | Deputy Inspector James F. Kobel has denied posting anonymously [using the pseudonym or screen name of "Clouseau"] on the Rant, an informal message board for people who work in law enforcement. |
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~ New York Times.
The Oversight and Investigations Division's investigation, as described in the New York Times, impresses me as a careful and painstaking process that has uncovered convincing evidence that NYPD Deputy Inspector Kobel was in reality the "Clouseau" that was expressing himself with posts or messages on the (now defunct or discontinued) "Rant." Here's more from the New York Times:
| quote | But even by the website’s [the Rant] vitriolic standards, scores of recent posts by a user who calls himself “Clouseau” have been especially disturbing.
Between the summer of 2019 and earlier this fall, “Clouseau” posted hundreds of messages on the Rant, many of which attacked Black people, Puerto Ricans, Hasidic Jews and others with an unbridled sense of animus.
He referred to former President Barack Obama as a “Muslim savage” and called the Bronx district attorney, Darcel D. Clark, who is Black, “a gap-toothed wildebeest.”
Now, city investigators say they have amassed evidence that “Clouseau” is a high-ranking police official. And not just any high-ranking official — the one assigned to an office responsible for combating workplace harassment in the Police Department. |
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I'm not here to close the investigation with definite findings, or to initiate (or decline to initiate) any penalty or punishment for officer Kobel. I leave that to the New York City Council and the NYPD, which (I hope) has access to the exact text of all of those Rant-board messages from officer Kobel (which I do not.)
| quote | | Free speech has consequences. |
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I think that can fairly be described as a tagline that's been used recently by another forum member. (A member who is already "in" on this thread.)
I think that's a good way to end this message.
"N.Y.P.D. Anti-Harassment Official Accused of Racist Rants"
William K. Rashbaum and Alan Feuer for the New York Times; November 5, 2020.
https://www.nytimes.com/202...bel-nypd-racism.html[This message has been edited by rinselberg (edited 01-28-2021).]
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