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Florida beach safety officer Todd Snipes fired for Trayvon Martin comments on Facebook
AP via NY Daily News ^ | August 10, 2013

Posted on 08/11/2013 4:14:16 AM PDT by Maceman

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — A Florida beach safety officer has been fired over comments he is accused of making on Facebook regarding Trayvon Martin.

Todd Snipes was fired Friday for unprofessional conduct. County officials say Snipes showed “horrible judgment made worse during a racially charged atmosphere.”

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: blackkk; florida; georgezimmerman; trayvonmartin
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To: txrangerette

What about the feral thugs who posted ‘kill whitey’ on FB during during the GZ trial?


21 posted on 08/11/2013 5:06:45 AM PDT by patriot08 (NATIVE TEXAN (girl type))
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To: sport

Right-o. This was more a case of IQ than anything.


22 posted on 08/11/2013 5:09:59 AM PDT by bigbob
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To: sport

Nothing valuable or good comes from Facebook that isn’t outweighed by the bad and useless.

I read something where Facebook is being cited in a disproportionally large number of divorce and legal cases.


23 posted on 08/11/2013 5:12:34 AM PDT by rlmorel (Silence: The New Hate Speech)
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To: patriot08

Can’t be fired ifn you ain’t gotst a J-O-B.


24 posted on 08/11/2013 5:13:27 AM PDT by Roccus
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To: Maceman

25 posted on 08/11/2013 5:16:53 AM PDT by JoeProBono (Mille vocibus imago valet;-{)
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To: Roccus

How about arrested for terrorist threats?


26 posted on 08/11/2013 5:17:43 AM PDT by patriot08 (NATIVE TEXAN (girl type))
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To: sport

“Another thug gone. Pull up your pants and be respectful. Bye bye thug r.i.p.”

We need to take back the dialogue and staying silent isn’t going to get the job done. By all real accounts Trayvon was a thug. Members of that community may not like reading or hearing such comments, but lashing out at the person saying it isn’t going to fix their culture’s failures. Calling every person who speaks up and speaks out against those behaviors and attitudes that are failing a community isn’t a racist or a bigot.

Trayvon was a thug and the community let a good child slip through to the dark side. The longer we let the community wallow in denial of how they continue to fail their young people...the more we lose as a culture. Bad habits, bad culture should evolve to something better. Oddly, in America, it doesn’t. It doesn’t because we CAN’T talk about it, challenge it, and expose its’ failure to the light of day.


27 posted on 08/11/2013 5:18:41 AM PDT by EBH (The 'silent majority' is just as responsible for where this country is today as the screaming mob)
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To: rlmorel

AMEN and AMEN! Seems like it brings out the stupidity in people like the guy in Miami that killed his wife and then posted her picture on FaceBook. And he is only one of many and probably not even the worse.


28 posted on 08/11/2013 5:22:08 AM PDT by sport
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http://www.mrconservative.com/files/2013/07/thy.jpg


29 posted on 08/11/2013 5:27:40 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (It's no coincidence that some "conservatives" echo the hard left.)
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To: alice_in_bubbaland
Maybe the 'beach safety officer' AKA lifeguard - should sue Daytona Beach.

He needs to find out if the Constitution allows people to be fired for using the term 'thug'... I'd like to know, Lenny Bruce would like to know. Jon Stewart who uses the 'eff' term would like to know...

30 posted on 08/11/2013 5:32:33 AM PDT by GOPJ (Sob stories make bad law...)
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To: EBH
People do what they want to, Martin decided that he wanted to be a hoodlum at an early age. No amount of talking, no amount of counseling could change that. Prisons and electric chairs were made for people like Martin. The only question remained, which would he get first?

You are correct in saying we need to take back the dialogue, but that is not going to happen. We have transitioned from the Land of the Free and Home of the Brave to the land of the freebie and home of the gimme in less than one generation.

31 posted on 08/11/2013 5:33:04 AM PDT by sport
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To: Maceman

In America today we must be tolerant of all things lest one, the truth.


32 posted on 08/11/2013 5:36:22 AM PDT by SampleMan (Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
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To: Maceman

If he did not post it on government time on a government using a government computer what he said is protected speech.


33 posted on 08/11/2013 5:42:52 AM PDT by isthisnickcool (NO MORE IRS!)
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To: Maceman

You folks should have heard the Chicago police scanner last night. It is sickening and embarrassing we allow these criminals to do what they have been doing. Almost all of the calls are for “black male with gun” or a knife or for aggravated assault. It is a war zone.

I put all of this on Obama’s shoulders. He had the opportunity of a lifetime to heal racial divides and stop a lot of this racism garbage. Instead he turned the clock back to toe 1950’s. That is evil. Very very evil.


34 posted on 08/11/2013 5:46:36 AM PDT by isthisnickcool (NO MORE IRS!)
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To: sport

I lost a few friends over posting pro-Second Amendment pictures, etc on FB earlier this year, but I didn’t care. People need to realize that regular folks that they know believe these things and that we don’t cater to the politically correct.


35 posted on 08/11/2013 5:57:13 AM PDT by ez (Muslims do not play well with others.)
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To: isthisnickcool

As long as they kill each other. When they get tired of it, they will start behaving as decent human beings toward each other and expel by one way or another, those who refuse to abide by civil rules.


36 posted on 08/11/2013 6:21:23 AM PDT by sport
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To: Maceman

Don’t forget to save some sympathy for the teenager who was brutally beaten by three older teens on a school bus.


37 posted on 08/11/2013 6:35:18 AM PDT by billhilly
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To: Uncle Lonny

Did any businesses or news outlets boycott Spike Lee?


38 posted on 08/11/2013 6:43:39 AM PDT by BilLies (I despise The Progressive Liberal American Press, its corporations, management, reporters, readers.)
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To: Maceman; All

This is Black Ku Klux Klan Racism, and this person needs to sue Daytona Beach for being fired for expressing the FACTS and for his 1st Amendment rights

Daytona Beach is notorious as one of the biggest Pedophile trolling grounds in America. Instead of firing a beach patrol for making a factual statement regarding a Miami Ghetto Thug who got capped when he assaulted a Hispanic man....maybe DB should concentrate more on getting rid of the Pedophiles who use DB as their candy shop


39 posted on 08/11/2013 6:51:09 AM PDT by SeminoleCounty (Difference between George Zimmerman and Al Sharpton is that Sharpton woulda let honky family burn)
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To: SeminoleCounty
So much for “Free Speach”. Wasn't there something in the U.S Constitution (before odumbo threw it aside) that addressed that? sarc.

Perhaps the guy can sue his previous employer for violating his civil rights.

40 posted on 08/11/2013 7:01:28 AM PDT by DaveA37
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