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AgingAmerican

(12,958 posts)
Thu Aug 7, 2014, 02:06 PM Aug 2014

Watch NJ cop go rogue: Since Obama ‘doesn’t follow Constitution, we don’t have to’ [View all]

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/08/07/watch-nj-cop-go-rogue-since-obama-doesnt-follow-constitution-we-dont-have-to/

A man who was attempting to document the mistreatment of animals in a New Jersey animal shelter was escorted off the premises by a cop who insisted that police don’t have to follow the Constitution because of President Barack Obama.

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The first officer to respond to the call was Special Police Officer Richard Recine, who retired from neighboring Franklin in 2006 but works as a part-time officer in Helmetta now. Officer Recine confronted Wronko, who insisted that he had a constitutional right to be in public buildings.

“You know that, nowadays, with terrorism and all, people have the right to know who’s walking around, who’s recording,” Officer Recine said.

“No, they don’t,” Wronko replied. “I’m in a public building, recording, which is my First and Second Amendment right.”

“They don’t even care about that anymore,” Officer Recine said. “Because Obama has decimated the friggin’ constitution, so I don’t give a damn. Because if he doesn’t follow the Constitution we don’t have to.”

Wronko turned the child filming the encounter and asked, “Did you get that? He said he doesn’t have to follow the Constitution.”

“Yes,” Officer Recine said, “our president has decimated the Constitution, then we don’t have to.”

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