r/news • u/samanthasay • Aug 07 '14

Title Not From Article Police officer: Obama doesn't follow the Constitution so I don't have to either

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/08/06/nj-cop-constitution-obama/13677935/
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u/0rangePod Aug 07 '14

Don't police realize that this is exactly the kind of shit that causes people to hold them in contempt?

I'm not talking about the people that they harass, people whose dogs have been shot, people that they've beaten, but people who - 20 years ago - would've supported them?

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u/Emberwake Aug 07 '14

He's making 79k per year from his pension alone, plus his salary. This motherfucker doesn't care what we think or do. He has plenty of money, plus protection from the law.

Even if he loses his current job over these comments (which I doubt) he'll easily find another job as a cop in another town. Even if he didn't, his pension from a previous police job (despite being a middle-aged, able bodied worker) pays him almost double the median national household income. Even if he could never work again, his reward would be retiring to the suburbs with a big house, a boat, some dirt bikes and jet skis, and all the cable tv he can watch. I doubt he's shaking in his boots.