Fairfax County Police Watch: Cop fired over ‘F**k all the Libtards’

A small-town police chief who recorded a series of foul-mouthed Youtube videos ranting about John Kerry and the UN and firing his automatic weapon, has been fired.

Mark Kessler had already been suspended for 30 days for posting the profanity-laced pro-gun videos. Now Gilberton Borough Council, in Pennsylvania, has voted to sack him from his role in the community.

Kessler has acknowledged that his videos are inflammatory, but he told NBC News they were designed to draw attention to what he sees as the erosion of the USA's Second Amendment and the freedom of speech.

He said it was his 'right' and 'freedom' to make the videos, in which he repeatedly fires the borough-owned automatic weapon. He told NBC Philadelphia after being fired: 'I feel in my heart I'm doing the right thing.'

Several Kessler supporters showed up at the hearing yesterday, most were members of his 'Constitution Security Force' - his pro-gun group. One member got into an argument with an opponent, according to the news service.

In the hearing, Kessler's lawyer, Joseph Nahas, claimed the charges brought against his client were inflated to justify his dismissal for the videos, said NBC News.

In one video, he claims to be apologising for using offensive language in a previous video. He then says he's kidding, tells people who were offended to 'go f*** yourself' and then fires founds from a machine gun.

In another video, he complains about Secretary of State John Kerry, the United Nations and other 'libtards' and 'p******' he claims are trying to take his guns.

After firing more rounds from a machine gun, he invites the 'libtards' to 'come and get it.'

Kessler was suspended in July for improper use of state purchasing programme, failing to submit required crime data and making derogatory comments about borough officials.

After the hearing Nahas declined the offer to comment, NBC News said.

When the videos first surfaced last month, Gilberton Mayor Mary Lou Hannon said she found the language in the videos offensive and she understood that others did as well.

'I think it's blackened our eye a little, but we are a strong community,' Hannon said at the time. 'We will go on from here.'

Officials have said that Kessler bought the weapons with his own money and donated them to the police department, an action approved by the council. Kessler told PennLive.com on Wednesday that he also donated the ammunition used in the videos.

Morrogh finds cop he doesn’t love. In other news, hell freezes.

Probe of fatal police shooting goes to federal authorities

By Justin Jouvenal/Post

The Fairfax County prosecutor has turned over the investigation of a fatal police shooting of an unarmed Springfield man to federal authorities, citing complications with the five-month-old case.

Commonwealth’s Attorney Ray Morrogh said the U.S. attorney’s office for the Eastern District of Virginia has agreed to continue the probe into the death of 46-year-old John Geer, who was shot during a standoff with Fairfax County police in August. No one has been charged in the incident.

“There is a conflict of interest that has arisen in the case,” Morrogh said Thursday. “And there is a second potential conflict of interest that has arisen out of my office. . . . This is the prudent thing to do.”

Morrogh declined to describe the nature of the conflicts because the investigation is ongoing. The U.S. attorney’s office said Thursday that it could not confirm or deny any investigation or comment on pending investigations.

Police went to Geer’s Pebble Brook Court home on Aug. 29 because of a report of a domestic disturbance. Geer’s father, Don Geer, said his son was upset because his girlfriend, the mother of his two children, had decided to leave him.

John Geer had thrown his girlfriend’s belongings in the front yard. She called police and told them that Geer had a firearm. Police said they tried for about 50 minutes to persuade Geer to leave the home, but he refused.

Don Geer said he watched the climax of the encounter. He said that he could not hear what officers were saying to his son but that he saw him standing with empty hands resting on top of a screen door at the home’s entrance.

At some point, John Geer began to slowly lower his hands and an officer opened fire, hitting Geer in the chest, his father said. Geer retreated inside and closed the door. A SWAT team eventually entered the home and found Geer dead.

Don Geer said detectives later told him that his son did not have a gun on him at the time of the shooting but that there was a holstered handgun a couple of steps from the front door.

Don Geer said it appeared to him that the shooting was unjustified, but he was unsure what to make of the probe being turned over to federal authorities.

“I don’t know whether that’s good or bad — if I had a better idea of why they are doing it, I could form an opinion,” he said.

Geer and friends of his son have been critical of how long the investigation has taken, but Morrogh said police and prosecutors were working to explore all the evidence. He did not think federal prosecutors would have to start from scratch.

“No one wants these things to linger on,” Morrogh said.

Our ink will outlast his career

Under the reign of former Chief of Police Rhorer the Fairfax County Police arrested a man for not wearing clothes in his house while he made coffee, set up an eye doctor on a gambling charge and then used the SWAT team to kill him. An investigation into the charge that the Doctor’s primary clients were cops has never been investigated. The police gunned down an emotionally unstable man because cop who shot him wrongly assumed the man was trying to escape. He wasn’t. The cops also shot dead four other citizens under highly questionable circumstances. The department under Rhorer was sued multiple times by citizens. So did they fire Rhorer? Naw they promoted him. According to news reports Rhorer draws a salary of $191,168 per year as Deputy Fairfax County Executive as well as a concurrent pension from the Fairfax County police of $173000 per year.

Occupation by force

According to the most recent U.S. Census figures, nearly one in five Fairfax residents (17.5 percent) is of Asian descent while Hispanics make up nearly 16 percent of Fairfax’s overall population. Those numbers drop considerably when applied to the Fairfax County Police Department, where only 4.3 percent of officers are Asian and 4.1 percent Hispanic. White officers make up 84 percent of Fairfax County’s 1,360-member police department, significantly higher than the county’s general population (54 percent white). Almost 90% of the force lives outside the county.