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riversedge

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Sun Nov 12, 2017, 10:35 AM Nov 2017

Philly Cops Say They Want To Bitch Slap The Citys New Dem.Dist Attorney who won in a landslide.. [View all]

Vulgarity is just OK nowadays.

Philly Cops Say They Want To ‘Bitch Slap’ The City’s New District Attorney

https://lawnewz.com/police/philly-cops-say-they-want-to-bitch-slap-the-citys-new-district-attorney/



by Colin Kalmbacher | 12:07 pm, November 11th, 2017


Multiple members of the Philadelphia Police Department recently wrote scathing, hateful and violent comments directed toward the city’s newly-elected district attorney on social media.


In a Facebook post from November 8, Officer Marc Marchetti changed his profile photo to an image of Larry Krasner, Philadelphia’s district attorney-elect. Marchetti then began a conversation with friends using the hashtag #notmyDA and discussion quickly spiraled into the realm of vulgar and abusive reaction.

Some of the comments on the thread were simply repetitions of the anti-Krasner hashtag–a retread of similar phrases used by liberals to delegitimize presidents George W. Bush and Donald Trump. Then, Officer Steve Mancuso chimed in to set the tenor of the resulting scene. He typed, of Krasner:

He’s got that look on his face you just wanna wipe off with a bitch slap.

The comments devolved from there.


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Krasner, a former civil rights attorney who has repeatedly sued the Philadelphia Police Department and who received the endorsement of Black Lives Matter, was overwhelmingly chosen by voters in the City of Brotherly Love in a landslide win where he secured 75 percent of the vote against his Republican challenger, Beth Grossman.

Krasner took the abuse in stride. His spokesman Ben Waxman said, in a statement:...............................

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