Bend police officer under investigation after accusations of extremist speech

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"Bend [Oregon] police officer under investigation after accusations of extremist speech"

Bend police officer under investigation after accusations of extremist speech
The officer was photographed on duty wearing a Latin phrase popular with far-right groups. Then activists circulated his social media posts.
opb.org
7:45 AM · May 5, 2021

https://www.opb.org/article/2021/05/05/bend-police-department-officer-joshua-spano-under-investigation-extremist-speech/

The chief of the Bend Police Department said one of its officers is under investigation after displaying a slogan of the gun rights movement while on duty.

Cpl. Joshua Spano was photographed over the weekend donning the Greek phrase “molon labe,” meaning “Come and take [them],” while issuing a citation to a vocal critic of Bend police.

The activist, Mike Satcher, is currently embroiled in a legal battle with Bend over access to police records. Spano cited Satcher on Saturday for criminal trespassing during what the activist describes as a volunteer effort to provide food and showers to unhoused people. After the interaction, members of Satcher’s group, the Central Oregon Peacekeepers, circulated the photo of Spano along with screenshots from his personal social media accounts, which contain imagery often used by far-right groups.

A screenshot of a 2013 post shows a leg tattoo of the Statue of Liberty holding a pistol and silencer, with the “molon labe” phrase inked below. The post is captioned: “Love my country, hate my government.” A 2017 post apparently made by Spano displays a collection of patches alongside a notebook cover that reads: “People To Kill.” One of the patches includes the Roman number “iii,” a favorite of the anti-government militia group, the Three Percenters. Alleged members of the group from Texas and Colorado stand accused of participating in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

Last December, Spano also appeared to use Instagram to advertise stickers — an image of an assault rifle in the style of the Patagonia fish logo. The sticker was visible on a fellow officer’s clipboard at a police response months earlier, as clashing political demonstrations turned violent.

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[Omnipresent]

1. Unlike corporations...

Cops are public employees and need to stay out of politics.

[Deep State Witch]

2. Moron Label

I've heard the "monon labe" described as "moron label".