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Related: About this forumCPS Fires a Special Investigator Who Used Term ‘Nigartard’
Rita DeShannon, a special investigator with Texas Child Protective Services, was fired today after the agency was alerted to racially inflammatory remarks on her personal Twitter account. Under the account @TexasPeanut, DeShannon tweeted frequently during the past few weeks on George Zimmerman and Trayvon Martin, using the term nigartards and calling for white people to arm themselves.
Of course the gov will pursue civil rights charges to appease the nigartards. Texas Peanut (@TexasPeanut) July 15, 2013
Every white American needs to own a gun and teach your family gun safety and how to shoot your family is a target now it will get worse Texas Peanut (@TexasPeanut) July 15, 2013
Trayvon Martin, thug in training, came up against an American gun owner, jumped the wrong person that night, he would have died young anyway Texas Peanut (@TexasPeanut) July 15, 2013
Every white American needs to own a gun and teach your family gun safety and how to shoot your family is a target now it will get worse Texas Peanut (@TexasPeanut) July 15, 2013
Trayvon Martin, thug in training, came up against an American gun owner, jumped the wrong person that night, he would have died young anyway Texas Peanut (@TexasPeanut) July 15, 2013
DeShannon has worked for CPS since 2003, first as a foster care worker, then as an investigative caseworker and finally as an Ellis County-based special investigator since 2010, according to the agency. According to her LinkedIn profile, DeShannon is also a law-enforcement officer, who worked as a detective in the Monroe, Louisiana, Police Department. She also owns a company, AAA Texas Process Service, that serves court papers for the Texas Supreme Court, according to public records.
Until she changed it yesterday, her Twitter profile identified her as a member of the Oathkeepers, a far-right organization largely comprised of cops and military personnel who promise to disobey orders they consider unconstitutional. DeShannon didnt respond to an email from the Observer seeking comment.
The Observer contacted CPS on Tuesday about DeShannons Twitter account. Patrick Crimmins, a spokesperson for the Department of Family and Protective Services, said the agency wasnt aware of DeShannons inflammatory racial views or her Twitter account. On Wednesday morning, the agency dismissed her. In a letter recommending her dismissal, CPS administrators wrote that her comments were inappropriate and inflammatory and violated her ethical responsibilities to the children and families we serve. In one tweet on July 15th, DeShannon complains, Im really f#cking tired of being politically correct for nothing after all these years! Her most recent tweet, from two days ago: Im not racist..Ill kill any color of person who tries to kill me first!
Source: http://www.texasobserver.org/cps-fires-a-special-investigator-who-used-term-nigartard/
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CPS Fires a Special Investigator Who Used Term ‘Nigartard’ (Original Post)
TexasTowelie
Aug 2013
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Wait Wut
(8,492 posts)1. This is heartbreaking.
CPS is woefully understaffed nationwide. Many of the CPS workers that truly love what they do are overworked. And then this fucking moron pulls this crap. Good riddance. Our children are too important to trust to a fuck up like this. With her bigoted and racist beliefs, there is no way in hell a child or family would get the attention and care that they desperately need.
Go to hell TexasPeanut.
ForgoTheConsequence
(4,846 posts)2. Reading up on her she was an anti government conservative.
She had no problem taking a government job though.
Scum.
ForgoTheConsequence
(4,846 posts)3. Hmmm....
Currently a Special Investigator for the State of Texas. Formerly a Detective in the Criminal Investigation Division of Monroe Police Department. I am trained as a Forensic Interviewer, a trainer for TADEC in joint investigation practices involving drug task forces and civil investigators and Texas State Supreme Court Process Server. I am also available to present in Texas police academies on topics of Child Abuse/Neglect; Cruelty to Livestock and Non-Livestock Animals and The Link between cruelty to animals and criminal behavior.
Whole lotta government jobs there lady.