BAD COP:
White police official won’t apologize for racial slur
"Police commissioner asked to quit over Obama slur" by Lynne Tuohy | Associated Press May 17, 2014
Political leaders in a predominantly white New Hampshire town have joined residents in demanding the resignation of a police commissioner who uttered a racial slur about President Obama.
Wolfeboro Town Manager David Owen posted a message Friday on the town’s website calling on Robert Copeland to resign the post to which he was reelected in March. In the post, Owen said Copeland’s comments are appalling and called on him to save the town further embarrassment.
The agenda-pushing diversions and divisions promoted by the $upremaci$t Zionist media have become tiresome, sorry.
State and local officials said they have received complaints from as far away as California from people upset about the comments, some of whom have threatened to cancel vacations to New Hampshire.
The vice chairwoman of the town’s Board of Selectmen also pushed Copeland to step down.
‘‘I know there are people trying to convince him to resign, but he seems entrenched in his position,’’ said Sarah Silk. ‘‘He could stop this runaway train.’’
More than 100 residents packed a Police Commission meeting Thursday to demand the resignation of Copeland, 82.
About 20 black people live in Wolfeboro, a town of 6,300 in central New Hampshire, a state that is 94 percent white and 1 percent black. None of the Police Department’s 12 full-time officers is black or a member of another minority.
No wonder white guys won the presidency for so long.
A resident said she overheard Copeland use a slur at a restaurant in March and wrote to the town manager.
Copeland, in an e-mail to her, acknowledged using the slur in referring to the president and said he will not apologize.
‘‘I believe I did use the N-word in reference to the current occupant of the Whitehouse,’’ Copeland said in an e-mail to his fellow police commissioners. ‘‘For this, I do not apologize; he meets and exceeds my criteria for such.’’
You never see that word here. I'm only looking at names, people, and policies. I don't care about the rest.
Officials say resignation is the only way to get Copeland out of office before his three-year term expires. New Hampshire has no recall provision for elected officials.
Police Commission chairman Joseph Balboni said at the close of Thursday’s meeting that the three commissioners would meet privately to ‘‘solve the problem’’ but that no date has been set.
Experts on the state’s open meeting law differ on whether such a meeting would have to be conducted in public....
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N.H. police official resigns over use of racial slur
"Stung by official’s slur, N.H. town unites" by Sarah Schweitzer | Globe staff May 22, 2014
WOLFEBORO, N.H. — The town stood up.
Facebook pages launched with comments giving the commissioner his what-for. Letters protesting the commissioner filled the pages of the local paper. People attended a town meeting en masse to demand his resignation. Officials declared his comments appalling. Citizens planned a rally for later in the month, which, it turned out, was not needed.
Neither was Al.
This week, Robert Copeland, 82, a retired lawyer, caved with two words, “I resign.”
To many here, the resignation felt like the coda to a kind of Wolfeboro Spring, a joining of natives and transplants, Democrats and Republicans, elderly and young, to oust a leader in power who otherwise might have hung on....
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The resignation was particularly poignant, coming after a string of racially offensive comments by high-profile men. Donald Sterling, the Los Angeles Clippers owner, has signaled that he will not pay a fine to the NBA for his remarks about African-Americans, and Cliven Bundy, a Nevada rancher who gained worldwide attention for refusing to remove his cattle from government land, offered a wan apology for publicly denigrating African-Americans in front of a reporter.
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And you were LIED TO about BUNDY!
First time I've seen his name in print in my Globe, too!
Copeland, reelected to a three-year term in March, could not be reached for comment about his resignation.
To be sure, outside pressure was mounting after Copeland’s statement became public.
At the Wolfeboro Inn, prospective patrons called saying they were reconsidering visits while Copeland was still in office. At Brewster Academy, a prep school in town, parents and alumni called inquiring about the incident and expressing dismay. News accounts were proliferating, many noting that Wolfeboro was, like much of New Hampshire, overwhelmingly white. Mitt Romney, who owns a vacation home in the town, called on Copeland to apologize and resign.
Meaning it is also a very RICH area!
“It was a very stressful week, in terms of the negative attention to the town,” said Darrin Frowery, general manager of the the Wolfeboro Inn. “But we are a very good town, with a solid community, and deep down people knew that.”
This being New England, reserve ruled at first. “Like with anything of this sort, we didn’t say much. ‘This is quite the thing,’ and ‘Oh, my gosh.’ And we all understood,” said Brian Murphy, a retired school security director who grew up in Lowell.
Then, just as quickly, reserve fell away.
“We were struck by how many people came out to share their feelings about the commission,” said Michael Bloomer, a high school junior who was among the more than 100 people who attended the regularly scheduled meeting on May 15 of the police commissioners, elected officials who have authority over the hiring and firing of police.
Bloomer has started a petition seeking to disband the three-member police commission.
Bloomer’s father said speakers at the meeting came from many different backgrounds, with plenty of Republicans, who outnumber Democrats, coming to the defense of a US president they did not vote for.
My problem is with his policies, failures, and broken promises.
“We had bipartisan outrage,” said Brian Bloomer, a teacher.
Jennifer Fraser Haynes, a mother of two who runs an adaptive sports program, said the issue transcended politics.
“I think [President Obama] should be treated with respect,” said Haynes, a Republican originally from the Philadelphia area. “As an American, I found it disgusting that someone would speak like that.”
I don't think he should be called foul names, but not do I respect him. He is a mass-murdering war criminal that tortures on the high seas. A person like that is not worthy of respect.
Amy Bergeron, who was standing nearby at the supermarket where Haynes was doing some shopping after work this week, took exception. “If you knew Bob Copeland, you’d know he was out to dinner, drinking at a bar.”
“And that’s an excuse?” Haynes asked.
“He’s a wonderful man with a strong personality,” Bergeron said.
In an interview later, Bergeron, a 40-year-old food caterer and Wolfeboro native, said she has worked for Copeland. She believed Jane O’Toole should have kept quiet about what she overheard because it was Copeland’s First Amendment right to speak his mind.
That is a key sentence in all this agenda-pushing. What we are seeing at work here is an attempt to use sensitivity to advance a politically-correct agenda of acceptable speech.
One of the keys to being a free speech advocate is accepting the speech you hate; any other speech isn't free. You are only for free speech if you are against it. Everyone is for free speech when it is their point of view; it's the right of the opposition to be heard that is the litmus test.
Thus it is that I am reading a Globe and would always want the propaganda machine to be available. It's their right, just as it is my right to call them out on all the lies and distortions. Then the task is left for the reader to decide what is true or false.
“He may have made a poor word choice, but why can’t we be strong in our opinions?” said Bergeron.
O’Toole said she thought about lying low. But she said she grew up an Army brat, Fort Devens among her stops, living among people of all backgrounds.
“I’d come here to live in peace and quiet, but it just gnawed at me. It gnawed and gnawed to the point that I had to put it down on paper, and I finally took a deep breath and hit send.”
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I suppose it's all good, huh?
Also see: After Wolfeboro, towns need exit strategies
GOOD COP:
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Well, it is your choice what you think of law enforcement, I guess.
"Former Dover, N.H., city councilor charged with making threats
A former city councilor and state representative from Dover, N.H., has been indicted on charges that he pointed a gun at a woman’s head and threatened to kill her and himself in 2012. The indictment against Michael Weeden, 23, also accuses him of forcing himself sexually on the woman. Foster’s Daily Democrat reported that Weeden has not responded to phone calls, but did post a comment on Facebook saying that when the matter goes before a jury, ‘‘they will see how ridiculous this claim is.’’ He is scheduled to be arraigned May 29. Weeden ran for reelection to the council seat, but was defeated in November."
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NEXT DAY UPDATE:
"Former Somersworth, N.H., teacher sentenced for kissing student
A former New Hampshire high school math teacher who was accused of kissing a 15-year-old female student has been sentenced to 30 days in jail. Paul Blanc of Milton pleaded guilty to three counts of misdemeanor simple assault Wednesday in Dover District Court. Foster’s Daily Democrat reported that Blanc, 41, was accused of hugging the student and kissing her neck and hand in January at Somersworth High School. Blanc, a math teacher, resigned a few days later and was charged in February. He was sentenced to 12 months, with all but one month suspended."
Bad teacher.
