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-War on Police-

Virginia Police Chief Fired For Charging Prominent BLM Vandals And Public Officials

2020-11-19

[HOTAIR] Back on June 10th in Portsmouth, Virginia, a large group of protesters decided to tear down and destroy a Confederate monument located in that city. An investigation was launched, led by Portsmouth Police Chief Angela Greene. After collecting video from the event and conducting interviews for two months, Greene announced in August that charges were being filed against 19 people who had been involved in the destruction. Police were seeking 13 more people who had yet to be identified. In the process, one of the protesters was severely injured when the statue was pulled down on top of them by his accomplices. That was also being investigated separately.

You might think that would be pretty much the end of the story, but it wasn’t. Among those arrested was State Sen. Louise Lucas, several leaders of the local Black Lives Matter movement, officials from the NAACP, and a member of the local school board. Since several crimes had obviously been committed, you might think that Chief Greene (who is Black, by the way) would be lauded for holding all citizens, regardless of their status accountable. You would be wrong, however. Howls of protest emerged not only from the community but from elected officials. Yesterday the situation came to a head and Chief Greene was unceremoniously fired. (NBC News)

The police chief of Portsmouth, Virginia, was fired Monday in what she suggested was a politically motivated move moments before criminal charges were dropped against a prominent state senator and several local Black leaders accused of conspiring to damage a Confederate statue during a protest this year.

The latest twist in the case involving state Sen. Louise Lucas, a high-ranking Democrat who is Virginia’s most senior Black legislator, drew praise from Democrats who condemned the charges…

The Portsmouth Police Department did not immediately return a request for comment, and a city spokeswoman declined to say whether Greene’s firing was a result of the initial charges.

Greene had charged all of the people involved with felony injury to a monument in excess of $1,000 and conspiracy. She had the perpetrators on video using cans of spray paint and eventually toppling and destroying the statue. She had the social media records showing the state senator encouraging everyone to come down to the location and help them destroy the statue. There was even a video of the state senator telling coppers what they intended to do and saying that the police couldn’t arrest them for it.In other words, Greene had the perpetrators dead to rights and it should have been an open and shut case. But she was attacked incessantly by Democratic leadership instead. After she was fired for this, those same Democratic leaders, including former Governor Terry McAuliffe celebrated her firing, describing her efforts to enforce the law as "despicable political persecution."

Posted by:Fred

#13 The good thing is Texas and other states will give him a secure job and let him protect people from these thugs.

Posted by: Ebbomoger Speaking for Boskone4589 2020-11-19 17:55

#12 This is where healthy state or federal law enforcement would step in. Clear violation of equal protection.

Posted by: Rob Crawford 2020-11-19 11:30

#11 I wonder if My Pillow will look at a specialoffer of tailored white bedsheets if this continues to be a national trend? Just asking...

Posted by: NoMoreBS 2020-11-19 11:16

#10 And UTube's new TOS (as of 11/18/20) now states "Facial recognition restrictions: The Terms of Service already state that you cannot collect any information that might identify a person without their permission. While this has always included facial recognition information, the new Terms make that explicitly clear."

Posted by: Mullah Richard 2020-11-19 11:00

#9 nuke em from orbit

Posted by: 746 2020-11-19 10:19

#8 Normal people will start to leave cities run by these savages.

Eventually America will sort itself completely into two nations, the hellhole cities where the extremes of wealth and poverty are ruled by corrupt left-wing commissar-clowns, and the rest of us.

No way that we two can be governed under the same laws and democratic institutions. We need to find a way to excise these tumor-towns from the body politic

Posted by: Glusosh Spiper9714 2020-11-19 09:30

#7 Keep it up Democrats and before long, there won't be any arrests, just corpses found. I'm NOT advocating anything, just making a prediction. People see stuff like that and they decide that if there won't be justice, justice has to be made.

Posted by: Silentbrick 2020-11-19 09:16

#6 Even with the inevitable wrongful termination settlement, that must be incredibly disheartening. Imagine being fired for actually daring to apply the law to the local political class. It would be crushing to realize what a joke most people saw your job as.

Actions like this only make defunding the police more popular, by the way. After all, if the police are useless against rioters, then why bother having them? Why not just have slightly more violent "neighborhood watch" groups that may or may not care about the law? It's a slippery slope that will just continue to degrade respect for law enforcement.

Posted by: Vernal Hatrick 2020-11-19 08:37

#5 Former chief Greene will have lots of green in her future after the wrongful termination lawsuit.

Posted by: Raj 2020-11-19 08:28

#4 In the USA justice used to be blind to status.

Posted by: Angeater Omick2705 2020-11-19 07:57

#3 Tommy J. must be spinning in his grave.

Posted by: Clem 2020-11-19 07:39

#2 Unbelievable, yet somehow ... not surprising.

Posted by: Bobby 2020-11-19 07:36

#1 third world nation

Posted by: Lonzo Craviper5415 2020-11-19 00:45

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