By adamg on Thu., 3/1/2018 - 2:40 pm
The Globe reports the trooper who arrested that Randolph guy the other night - and yes, of course, there's now a question as to whether he was shot or got injured some other way - has a long history of spewing racial and other epithets on a police-oriented online forum. The Globe gives a taste of the comments by "Big Irish," many of which they don't quote verbatim because the Globe is still a family newspaper, but one of which he concludes:
Fuck the people of Mission Hill and Roxbury!! They don't give a rats ass about us!!
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Yeah, all those customer service jobs are just the same
By tachometer
Fri, 03/02/2018 - 4:14pm
When someone tries to use an expired coupon at the register they are routinely handcuffed and locked in an office until the corporate office can try and sentence them. It's standard operating procedure.
They are not all the same
By Waquiot
Sat, 03/03/2018 - 8:59am
But customer service is customer service. For example, providing an expired coupon is not a crime, but shoplifting is. If a customer at a store shoplifts, the staff might just lock them in a corporate office while they investigate it, which is a lot like law enforcement.
Not all jobs where people deal with the public are the same, but they all involve dealing with the public. Nurses deal with the public, as do automobile salesmen. Much like in this case, I would not expect the bosses of nurses or automobile salesmen to be monitoring websites frequented by said professions with an eye for tracking down commenters who say bad things about hospital patients or those buying cars, but to your earlier example, were they publicizing trade secrets, you better believe bosses would start smoking out who was, say, "waquiot."
Question:
By anon
Thu, 03/01/2018 - 6:03pm
Was the shooting justified?
I live in Brighton
By Will LaTulippe
Thu, 03/01/2018 - 6:44pm
I don't give a rat's ass about you either, Rambo.
Boston dodged a bullet
By anon
Thu, 03/01/2018 - 9:22pm
I f this Trooper shot and killed the dirt biker the DA would have ruled that the shooting was justified. The Globe reporters who did an excellent job would have exposed his racist and violent rants and all hell would have broken out and innocent cops and citizens would pay the price for his racist and sexist posts on a police website called masscops that failed to police the police.
Define "innocent"
By perruptor
Fri, 03/02/2018 - 6:47am
Are the cops who read the racist comments and knew who wrote them innocent? Do they have a duty to dime the guy for it?
Well
By anon
Fri, 03/02/2018 - 9:07am
If Pete is correct, other cops did dime this guy. They dimed him to an organization that would actually produce results, too - i.e. NOT the MSP.
It's a damn shame
By tachometer
Thu, 03/01/2018 - 11:17pm
Big Irish was just turning his policing career around.
/s
This story raises two
By anon
Thu, 03/01/2018 - 11:38pm
This story raises two interesting points. The first is does the MSP have a social media policy or other rules of behavior governing speech outside work?
The second is that while hate and racist speech is despicable, this is just another example of how one's social media/online actions taken while not on the job come back to affect one's job.
scauma's post calling all irish racists removed?
By bostnkid
Fri, 03/02/2018 - 9:15am
i came back to see if anyone agreed with him and it seems the post has been removed? something about the irish being racists and stones being wet?
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