This is essentially where I live. Guy already got fired. Good for them for firing him already. Purposely posting a UK article to show how quickly word spreads. https://metro.co.uk/2020/06/18/top-...take-care-without-playing-race-card-12873142/ Sergeant Jeff Annunziata, the chief traffic investigator for the Erie, Pennsylvania police department, sent an email complaining about protesters and spewing conspiracy theories this week. A police sergeant claimed that Black people seeking social justice ‘cannot take care of their own or anyone else without playing the race card’ in a ranting email sent to the city’s mayor and reporters. Sergeant Jeff Annunziata, the chief traffic investigator for the Erie, Pennsylvania police department, sent the email this week to the city’s Mayor, Joe Schember, and four journalists with the Erie Times-News in response to the city’s protests, which sparked nationwide outrage after a woman was seen getting kicked in the face by an Erie officer while she demonstrated. Annunziata, a 34-year veteran of the department claimed, citizens ‘do not understand compliance’ and rambled on about conspiracies theories suggesting that the Clinton Foundation and George Soros is funding Black Lives Matter. He also pointed to the fact that an Erie officer, Richard Burchick, was killed in 1991 – emphasizing that it was a Black man who killed Burchick – in the lengthy, unhinged email sent to the Times-News. ‘Why are the facts ignored about the killing in this country and how small, the minute numbers of Police officers that kill a black man in the line of duty,’ he wrote, according to the outlet. ‘There is not one police officer that I have met around the country that seeks out controversy instead of agreement NOT ONE,’ Annunziata continued. The sergeant’s statement comes after an Erie police officer was filmed kicking a seated woman in the face during protests in the wake of George Floyd’s death. On Monday, Mayor Schember announced that the officer who kicked 21-year-old Hannah Silbaugh has been suspended, but he did not identify the officer. He also announced that the city’s entire police department would undergo sensitivity training. Schember told the Times-News that he responded to Annunziata’s email and spoke to him in person, but he did not elaborate on what he said. ------- I have many comments on this. Mainly, shame on this idiot. His full letter reads like a twelve year old wrote it. Shame on the paper for publishing it. I hope we're spared from riots. This is what is wrong with officers today. Remember the thread I just posted about how there is more overt racism here than in Texas? Here you go. This is why we call them pigs, folks. I'll find his full text and post it. Here it is: People, Why are the facts ignored about the killing in this country and how small, the mInute numbers of Police officers that kill a black man in the line of duty? Why is the fact that the officer in Minnesota are paying for their lack of judgement ? What gives the protesters the right to cause damage and disobey public order? Minorities (BLACK PEOPLE) talk of SOCIAL JUSTICE when they cannot take care of their own or anyone else with out playing the race card, why? I see this all the time and many well know people of color agree with this, but are subsequently called Uncle Tom. All I want to see is equality also, but watch the reverse that has taken hold here in this country with the destruction of this countries history in the SOUTH AND OTHER STATES. Right or wrong it is the History of this Country. Why do you reporters not comment on the Destruction and Vandalism of National monuments WHY? I am glad I am a police officer in this city because we have adapted to change and how to treat people in the community. Those other communities need to adapt but it is not going to happen with rioting, looting and destruction of your neighborhoods and cities. Why is it that reporters do not report on the officers in this city that were injured trying to protect what people have built. You as reporters have a responsibility to report the whole story not the part you want to report for your own satisfaction and that of unnecessary movements. BLM is know to have attached itself with ANTIFA WHY? why is the Dem party with the likes of backers like George Soros & the Clinton foundation who are funding BLM & Antifa why? To say BLM and not all lives matter is racist, to stop a confederate flag from waving is a violation of the first amendment, why is this ignored. What about police lives that are killed in this country, why was there no protest when my friend and brother officer Richard Burchick was murdered by a black man? Why is the murder of retired ST. Louis Police Captain (Black Cop David Dorn) murdered and there was no protest for him, he was killed by a young black male ? 48 officers were killed in felonious acts in 2019, where is the protest for their deaths? Why is it important to kneel during the anthem when if they did this immediately after, I believe it would be widely accepted and participated in even by the fans. The protest is right and just, the timing has been dictated by the media. Mr. mayor how many officers need to be hurt before you speak out about the what is going on, this issue affects us all. The ‘deep state’ media, reporters are responsible and the ‘radical’ liberal politicians are right behind them. Their argument serves no purpose but perpetuates the problem because they show the problem but do not offer solutions, fair solutions we can all agree on. Remember we as police interact when we are called upon for help, and sometimes things get out of hand because People do not understand compliance. There is not one police officer that I have met around the country that seeks out controversy instead of an agreement NOT ONE. I have been around the country talking to police officer in my 34+ years career, we always look for a peaceful resolution, but when we are confronted with dissension, weapons of all kinds and argument we have a job to do and hopefully with peaceful results. As we know this does not happen when a law is broken and the suspect or citizen does not understand what they have done, was done wrong and against the law. Jeff Annunziata citizen, taxpayer and police officer.
Man I am getting increasingly worried for these MAGA types. How long before we have a mass shooting. How can somebody with this much authority think this was a logical thing to send out to the mayor and the media.
My problem is, if he's a fairly superior figure in our police department (not mine, but many of my friends'), does this run deeper in the department? A young white girl got "kicked" over at one of the BLM protests after she refused to move. There's been at least one or two excessive force lawsuits (nothing crazy crazy though) in the last few years, etc.
It reads like a Fox News broadcast...same words, phrases, studies, anecdotes, everything. Just sad. I imagine that this man has seen his fair share of problems and I don’t doubt his experiences, however, he is part of the problem instead of the solution. He’s in a position of leadership and influence, he could help foster change...instead its the same “us vs them” mentality and stubborn stuck in his ways efforts that plague our society.
Mass shooting will be soon ...my prediction. If you’re going to unarm the police you can’t have citizens with guns. I hope to God I’m wrong. I’m unarming an armed population will be extremely ugly. I still go back to: Who benefits from this discourse? I don’t have the answer to that question but I think it’s an important question. If we could find out the ‘who’ we might just find ourselves uniting against the benefactors.
Of course it runs deeper, if it did not he would not have felt comfortable sending this email out to the people he did. I see the officer who kicked the girl only got 3 days without pay. How do you feel about that?
Since when is unarming police a thing? The gun manufacturers are probably the biggest one benefitting if you actually want to know.
Suspending bad cops is a big reason why we're where we are today. Suspension is something you do to a school kid that's mouthed off to the teacher, not a form of punishment you give out to grown, sworn officers of the law that attack the public they're supposed to serve...
