Louisiana police officer fired for saying Ocasio-Cortez ‘needs a round’
‘This vile idiot needs a round ... and I don’t mean the kind she used to serve.’ That’s what Charlie Rispoli, a 14-year veteran of the Gretna Police Department in Louisiana, posted on Facebook FB, +0.41% last week in reference to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, according to the New Orleans Times-Picayune.The story he was commenting on, which claims Ocasio-Cortez says soldiers get paid too much, was satire and deemed “false” by Snopes.
The President is sowing violence. He’s creating an environment where people can get hurt & he claims plausible deniability. https://t.co/GuYKPGzSLm Ocasio-Cortez has been the target of threatening and lewd comments from law-enforcement officials before, including earlier this month when ProPublica found a secret Facebook page for Border Patrol agents to make crude jokes about her.
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