Posted on 07/26/2012 9:02:58 AM PDT by raccoonradio
LEOMINSTER, Mass. - A Leominster officer who investigators say directed a racial slur at Boston Red Sox outfielder Carl Crawford has been fired by Mayor Dean Mazzarella.
Witnesses said Officer John Perrault, who is white, began heckling Crawford, who is black, before a July 5 minor league Portland Sea Dogs game in Manchester, N.H., earlier this month. The witnesses said Perrault, who was off-duty, called Crawford a "Monday," which the player interpreted as a racial slur.
The word can be used as a derogatory term for blacks, and is often associated with Mondays being one of the least-liked days of the week.
At a hearing earlier this week, Leominster Police Chief Robert Healey said Perrault was also accused of making other racially insensitive and offensive remarks on his Facebook page.
"John's response was, 'A guy who walked by us with Guinness on his T-shirt and I said I didn't know they had Guinness in Africa,'" Healey said referring to a Facebook posting.
Healey recommended that Perrault be fired.
“What I uncovered is a disturbing pattern of behavior by Officer Perrault. Termination is appropriate discipline,” Healey said.
Perrault’s cousin, James Milonas, who was at the game, said the ‘Monday’ comment had nothing to do with race.
“It was all about Crawford making $19 million playing double-A. Even though it was a rehab assignment, he hasn’t produced one ounce for the Red Sox,” Milonas said.
Howie Carr list ping. Say the M-word, get fired.
Blacks are turning ‘thin-skinned’ into an art form...
that should say it should NOT contain the M word
The off-duty officer made the comment knowing it would have impact on the focus of his attention. That confirms that his intent was negative. Trash the guy for being a lousy player. Trash the guy because he can’t hit, can’t field, can’t run the bases properly, or simply doesn’t know the game. I’m all for it.
When you make comments that you know will tweak a guy based on race, you’ve tipped your hand that you’re harboring bias that is inappropriate for an officer.
I arrived early at a Dodger game one time. The stands were very sparsely occupied by the time we got to our seats. We were located in fairly decent seats about twenty rows back on the ground level.
Some guy was standing just behind the visiting team dugout, yelling at Joe Morgan. He was yelling comments about his race, his wife... nothing was out of bounds, and I could hear it from a long distance. So could my wife and kids.
Some people go nuts when it comes to sports.
“Monday? What kind of macaca nonsense is that?” - George Allen
” Howie Carr list ping. Say the M-word, get fired.”
Raise your hand if you think a black cop calling a white guy “honky” or some similar slur would get fired.
““Monday” is racist? Tough to keep up.”
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What’s next,Brussel’s Sprouts? Not too many people like them either.
The words racial and racist are so overused they’ve become meaningless.
yup double standard
My wife says Tuesday is a slur for women. As in C U Next ...
I hadn’t ever heard that. She says one of her friends refers to another women she doesn’t like as ‘Tuesday’ all the time.
Wow. You learn something new every Thursday...
My wife says Tuesday is a slur for women. As in C U Next ...
I hadn’t ever heard that. She says one of her friends refers to another women she doesn’t like as ‘Tuesday’ all the time.
Wow. You learn something new every Thursday...
One day in 1979 a 16 year old girl opened fire on an elementary school that she lived across the street from, killing two school employees and wounding nine. This is the incident to which you refer.
PC is tyranny.
I’ll gladly pay you Tuesday for a racial slur today!
Yes...there’s a doc. movie on youtube called The Killing of America (early 80s) about things like mass killings, etc. and it mentions the incident. It’s from that where I got the quote “Mondays are boring” while the other quote seems to be more
what people think she could have said.
Good Lord ESPN is going to have to change the name of
M——Y NIGHT FOOTBALL.
BRA in action.
What if he had called him a Saturday night or a weekend?
Officer John Perrault should be a very happy man, because he just won the ‘Wrongfully Fired Lotto’!
“Monday” is racist???? This is crazy. Obama has truly brought racism back.
From time to time, I see many good Blacks (oops, I should call them Fridays) doing yeoman’s work in setting a good example for all and showing their own disgust for race baiting and the racism against Whites crap.
Oops, wasn’t there a Black man in the old movies that went by the name of “Friday”? Guess I am a racist, but I can’t be fired.
""John's response was, 'A guy who walked by us with Guinness on his T-shirt and I said I didn't know they had Guinness in Africa,'" Healey said referring to a Facebook posting."
I dont know, this guy sounds like something of a d*ck.
LOL, must be one of those racist “microagressions,” such as described by that plagiarist Columbia U. professor who was seen in surveillance video hanging a noose on her own door.
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