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Protesters hold up signs, Friday, Aug. 15, 2014, in front of a convenience store that was looted and burned following the shooting death of teenager Michael Brown by police in Ferguson, Mo. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
An Illinois police officer was fired this week after posting on Facebook about 18-year-old Michael Brown: "Innocent victim my ass. Did society a favor."
The Elgin Police Department said Jason Lentz's Aug. 15 Facebook post about the Ferguson, Missouri, shooting violated the department's policy governing officers' social media use.
Elgin Police Dept. officer Jason Lentz was fired from the department. (Image source: The Daily Herald)
Lentz, a 17-year police veteran, had linked to a Fox News video about surveillance footage that allegedly showed Brown robbing a convenience store before he was fatally shot by a Ferguson police officer.
Lentz, 40, added this commentary: “Hmmm … Innocent victim my ass. Did society a favor."
A Freedom of Information Act request turned up records that indicated that Lentz failed to remove the post after the department asked him to do so; instead he edited down his commentary to “Hmmm…”, the Elgin Courier-News reported.
Lentz was placed on administrative leave Aug. 26 and fired on Monday.
“Our relationship with the community is based upon trust," Elgin Police Chief Jeffrey Swoboda said in an official statement. "When an officer violates this trust, action must be taken.”
This wasn't the first time Lentz got in trouble on the job. The Courier-News reported he'd had his police powers stripped four times and was last suspended in June.
After Lentz’s Aug. 15 post was discovered, the Courier-News reported, a police commander used another officer's Facebook account to scan through Lentz's page to determine if he'd made other troubling posts. About a dozen were catalogued, according to the newspaper, among them:
Lentz’s previous without-pay suspensions in 2001, 2012 and June were over issues including his making disparaging comments about a supervisor and sending inappropriate emails.
(H/T: Raw Story)