I was an idiot for putting it on Facebook, but to have all the pluses in my career forgotten over this one incident, which harmed no one, I think, is taking things too far.
— Arizona police officer Pat Shearer, telling the Arizona Republic that he wasn’t thinking when he posted on his Facebook President Obama’s image on a T-shirt with bullet holes. Shearer is now appealing his demotion and two-week suspension without pay on grounds that it is excessive.
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This is appalling. How can he say a t-shirt with a face covered bullet holes harms no one? Such negative and violent proclamations always harmful. Just ask Gabby Giffords. I hope he is fired and seeks psychological help for even wearing such an offensive shirt. I would have been offended no matter whose face had been shown with bullet hole.