Colorado: officer resigns - posted hundreds of racist, homophobic comments on news sites on the job
Pam Spaulding, Fri Feb 11, 2011 at 09:30:00 AM EST

It must be really difficult for someone to handle their own racism and homophobia that is so intense that you can't think straight, as it were. A 13-year member of the Douglas County (Colorado) Sheriff's office resigned for posting bigoted statements on public news sites while on duty and on a county computer.

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"Lt. Jeff Egnor resigned Tuesday after Douglas County officials confronted him about hundreds of postings on the 7NEWS website, http://www.thedenverchannel.com, and the KUSA-TV website, according to Undersheriff Tony Spurlock. Posting under the screen name "Abu Mybutt", Egnor commented on various stories from police shootings to the elimination of the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy that will let gay soldiers serve openly in the military. "New miltary slogans: The few, the queer, the Marines! Butt Rangers lead the way! Be as gay as you can be! Aim for a high hard one, Air Force! Join the Navy, see naked men!" Egnor posted on Dec. 20, 2010, misspelling military. Two similar posts: "Now we have a new weapon against our enemies: the sissy slap! :-P" and "I hear the Army is forming a new division: The Rump Rangers! :-D." Egnor also made comments about religious figures and attacked liberals, saying Democrats are ruining the United States. Egnor made it clear that he worked in government and when other readers of TheDenverChannel.com complained, 7NEWS filed an open records request to determine who was using the Douglas County Internet Provider address linked to the postings. After the 7NEWS request, Spurlock said superiors confronted Egnor Tuesday morning. He resigned that afternoon. He also commented on stories about sports figures like the arrest of Parrish Cox for sex assault. "Another member of the 'thug' culture that the NFL promotes. You can take the player out of the hood, but you can't take the hood out of the player! Hey I've got a great idea, let's take a gangbanger from the hood, throw millions of dollars at him, worship him as a god, kiss his butt night and day, let the media slober all over him! Then they are all suddenly shocked when the thug acts like a thug!""

I think this shows you that many news sites (that often times are not moderated), are havens for some of the most, um, unbalanced extreme commenters, who like to hide under the cloak of anonymity. That this ass disclosed that he worked for the taxpayers in Douglas County, saved everyone the trouble of purging Abu Mybutt/former Lt. Jeff Egnor from the comments. For now. Abu can now look for work: http://www.pamshouseblend.com/diary/18640/colorado-officer-resigns-posted-hundreds-of-racist-homophobic-comments-on-news-sites-on-the-job

2/17/2011 9:57:10 AM

Who cares faggot.

2/17/2011 9:59:29 AM

OK enough...stop with the stuff.

2/17/2011 9:59:57 AM

the piss poor judgement of some people in positions of power scares me

not to mention the inate bigotry

2/17/2011 10:55:13 AM

i routinely post bigoted and racist posts on semi-anonymous sites while at work.

what are you going to do about it, you gender-confused silly person?

2/17/2011 11:02:39 AM

how is this news?

Some people are hateful. Even more people are hateful on the internet. It will always be like that no matter how "aware" or accepting society as a whole is.

2/17/2011 11:04:43 AM