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Norfolk PD officer fired after anonymous donation to Kyle Rittenhouse defense fund
10WAVy.com ^ | Apr 20, 2021 | Julius Ayo

Posted on 04/20/2021 3:12:09 PM PDT by Jacob Kell

NORFOLK, Va. (WAVY) — A high-ranking Norfolk Police officer who was found donating to the defense fund of Kyle Rittenhouse has been fired from the police department.

Kyle Rittenhouse is the man charged with the murder of two Black Lives Matter protesters in Kenosha, Wisconsin, last August.

According to the Guardian newspaper on Friday, Sgt. William Kelly, who served as the executive officer of NPD’s internal affairs division, made an anonymous $25 donation to Rittenhouse’s defense in September. However Kelly used an official email address linked to himself, the Guardian reported.

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1 posted on 04/20/2021 3:12:09 PM PDT by Jacob Kell
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Fired for personal use of official email? That can likely be defended, otherwise, suspect he’ll sue. Maybe will anyway.


2 posted on 04/20/2021 3:13:47 PM PDT by Reno89519 (Buy American, Hire American! End All Worker Visa Programs. Replace Visa Workers w/ American Wo)
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To: Jacob Kell

I’d take that wrongful dismissal case.


3 posted on 04/20/2021 3:13:53 PM PDT by jimfree (My 20 y/o granddaughter continues to have more quality exec experience than Joe Biden.)
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To: Jacob Kell
The Mob sez:

Guilty Until Proven Innocent


4 posted on 04/20/2021 3:13:59 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: kiryandil

If you listen to fools, the mob rules!

RIP Ronnie James Dio!


5 posted on 04/20/2021 3:14:36 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Jacob Kell

Make an anonymous donation using your WORK email address? That wasn’t the brightest thing to do!


6 posted on 04/20/2021 3:14:51 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (Real happiness is one that you share)
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Norfolk PD officer fired after anonymous donation to Kyle Rittenhouse defense fund

Leaked info from crowdfunding site because evidently, even though it's a Christian crowdfunding site, there's a leftist working there.

7 posted on 04/20/2021 3:15:13 PM PDT by Pollard ( )
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
Make an anonymous donation using your WORK email address? That wasn’t the brightest thing to do!

I've been busy.

Did Kyle "Say His Name!" Rittenhouse get convicted of something?  thinking face

8 posted on 04/20/2021 3:16:58 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: Pollard

Data breach by the “transparency group” Distributed Denial of Secrets with info given to the Guardian.


9 posted on 04/20/2021 3:18:21 PM PDT by Prince of Space (Irish lives matter!)
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To: Reno89519
You would think a senior IAD officer would have the smarts to send an anonymous donation with a fresh gmail account. One could make the argument he was fired for incompetence.

That being said, I would definitely sue. I'm sure his legal team would find plenty of work accounts used for personal emails during discovery.

10 posted on 04/20/2021 3:18:22 PM PDT by cport (How can political capital be spent on a bunch of ingrates)
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To: Reno89519

Employees have very few rights in Virginia. You can be fired for any reason or no reason at all (save for a few exceptions for the special super protected PC classes).

Police unions are virtually powerless in Virginia with no collective bargaining allowed.


11 posted on 04/20/2021 3:18:44 PM PDT by TexasGurl24
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To: Jacob Kell

Things just keep heating-up, and we just sit here and bitch about it on FR. We are being steamrolled. We need a nationwide effort to go on strike and boycott these corporations funding our demise.


12 posted on 04/20/2021 3:19:58 PM PDT by JoSixChip (2020: The year of unreported truths. )
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To: Jacob Kell

If every police officer quit today, rural America would remain quiet, vigilantes would secure the burbs and the cities would become apocalyptic wastelands. I’m fine with this arrangement.


13 posted on 04/20/2021 3:20:04 PM PDT by MountainWalker
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To: Reno89519

If he is still represented by the union, then they should have a pretty good case of past precedence and file a grievance.


14 posted on 04/20/2021 3:21:23 PM PDT by shotgun
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This becomes a good reason to make sure payments are not made digitally, and ensuring you can still make donations via cash and check.

And there are deplatformed individuals like Laura Loomer and the Proud Boys leaders who lost their bank accounts and can’t use payment processors. In Loomer’s case, she can’t use Paypal or Uber because the black list extends that far.


15 posted on 04/20/2021 3:21:32 PM PDT by tbw2
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The men were not black lives matters protesters. They were criminals who seemed aligned with klantifa.

He was attacked by several violent men in a mob it was self-defense

Wasn’t one of the men illegally holding a gun?


16 posted on 04/20/2021 3:21:54 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Lean on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity. )
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To: Jacob Kell

Hit them with a lawsuit!


17 posted on 04/20/2021 3:23:15 PM PDT by kenmcg (tHE WHOLE )
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To: Reno89519

“That can likely be defended, otherwise, suspect he’ll sue.”

Unless the government is footing the bill, it’s nearly impossible for the average person to sue. A lawyer will tell you it’s ten thousand dollars down now and he’ll call you when he wants more. He will burn through the money at anywhere from $350-1500 per hour. The legal business is a business. You the client are like a natural resource to be exploited. The opposing side will keep your lawyer busy answering phone calls and responding to court demands. They will run you out of money. That’s something my lawyer did to win a case for me. But, he charged me virtually most of my winnings. Because lawyers are evil ba$tard$ and you are like a vein of coal or oil to them; to be used, not taken care of.

As for wrongful dismissal, probably not if he violated a policy, which he arguably did. My company fired someone for plugging his USB charger into his company computer. At most that should have been a reprimand or a letter in the file. However, since they wanted to get rid of him and he’d violated a policy, there was nothing he could do about it. As a lawyer told me when something similar happened to me, “If you were black I’d take the case as the government pays the bill and they’d know they were f——ed. They’d settle or we could go on forever. But, you’re not, so $10,000 down and they WILL run you out of money.”


18 posted on 04/20/2021 3:24:09 PM PDT by Gen.Blather (Wait! I said that out loud? )
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To: Pollard

More likely a small Christian site doesn’t have anywhere near the necessary security protocols in place to keep information secure


19 posted on 04/20/2021 3:24:24 PM PDT by ready2brd
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To: Jacob Kell

How crazy. No one is safe from these progressives anymore.


20 posted on 04/20/2021 3:25:26 PM PDT by Revel
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