According to the news source, some of the posts stated, “I am sorry. If you support the Democratic Party, I will not help you” and “The problem is that I know which of you supports the Democratic Party, and I will not help you survive the end of days.”

In another post, according to WHIO, Rodgers wrote that people would need to “provide proof of who you voted for” before rendering aid.

  • @Fredselfish@lemmy.world
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    18 months ago

    And nothing will be done about this literally fascist. Please send help America in trouble and us leftist need to get arned.

  • goferking (he/him)
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    8 months ago

    Daily reminder police in USA don’t have to do anything to protect people

    https://www.findlaw.com/legalblogs/law-and-life/do-the-police-have-an-obligation-to-protect-you/

    The answer is no.

    In the 1981 case Warren v. District of Columbia, the D.C. Court of Appeals held that police have a general “public duty,” but that “no specific legal duty exists” unless there is a special relationship between an officer and an individual, such as a person in custody.

    The U.S. Supreme Court has also ruled that police have no specific obligation to protect. In its 1989 decision in DeShaney v. Winnebago County Department of Social Services, the justices ruled that a social services department had no duty to protect a young boy from his abusive father. In 2005’sCastle Rock v. Gonzales, a woman sued the police for failing to protect her from her husband after he violated a restraining order and abducted and killed their three children. Justices said the police had no such duty.

    Most recently, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit upheld a lower court ruling that police could not be held liable for failing to protect students in the 2018 shooting that claimed 17 lives at Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.

  • EleventhHour
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    58 months ago

    The entire concept of sheriffs should be abolished. They hold outrageous amounts of unchecked power that does not come under the same level of scrutiny as a normal municipal/state police officer.

  • @BigMacHole@lemm.ee
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    58 months ago

    Police telling Democrats they won’t help them in case of Emergency is PROOF that DEMOCRATS need to TONE DOWN Their Rhetoric!

    • @nomous@lemmy.world
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      68 months ago

      Sounds like non-Republicans need to start forming their own armed networks to protect each other if existing “Law Enforcement” refuses to.

      I tell people as often as I can, especially my trans and bipoc friends; now is the time. Get a couple guns (a long one and a short one) and learn how to use them. Learn some basic first aid, you really just need to know how to stabilize someone. Start networking with like-minded people in your communities. The police will not protect us, they’ve proven they’ll happily club senior citizens to the ground and shoot any protesters in the face with rubber bullets while escorting a rightwing murderer to safety.

      Iran was a secular, liberal state until almost 1980 when they (mostly legitimately) elected an Islamist theocracy; it could happen here.

    • Lad
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      58 months ago

      The end of days for Trump’s political career hopefully

  • @Shortstack@reddthat.com
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    118 months ago

    Sounds like an endorsement to take the law into your own hands and shoot the marauders yourself

    Sheriff is an elected position so nobody should be shocked that a bastard cop would go there