News from the hell hole of Michigan. [there is also this video link]
LOWELL, MI — Lowell Police Chief Steve Bukala has resigned after allegations that he improperly took political positions in Facebook posts that became controversial.
Bukala resigned Thursday, but documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act show that he was going to be fired if he did not resign.
Bukala has been with the Lowell Police Department for more than 24 years and became chief in 2013.
Controversy erupted Tuesday, June 2 when Bukala posted on the department’s Facebook page about four men who were going to “open carry” weapons on Main Street in the aftermath of the Grand Rapids riot May 30.
City leaders said they didn’t necessarily take issue with Bukala allowing the “open carry” participants, but did with one line in the community post.
“We at the Lowell Police Department support the legally armed citizen and the second amendment,” he wrote.
Lowell City Manager Michael Burns later wrote in a disciplinary report that “Social media chatter on this was very hostile.”
Burns noted there were people for and against the chief’s stance, but believed it overstepped bounds and included “unneeded personal commentary and inserted political and debatable issues into a department notice and caused unneeded concern by some city residents.”
In his disciplinary report, Burns noted other recent instances where Bukala also seemed to take political positions, particularly involving Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.
One involved a post on his personal Facebook page that showed Bukala and his wife in front of a Home Depot store. His wife was wearing a mask — due to the COVID-19 threat — but Bukala wore a mask on his elbow.
Another instance involved an email Bukala sent to organizers of a planned caravan for Lowell High School graduates.
The organizers hoped for police assistance with the caravan but Bukala said it might be go against the governor’s stay-at-home order at the time.
In the email, he said he could have one patrol car available for any traffic issues, but anything more might be a violation. He suggested a route off Main Street and noted that it “keeps the Gretchen posse off may back and off the city’s back.”
So he’s realistic, amusing, supports the second amendment, supported open carry for patriots defending their homes and families, and didn’t interfere with open carry.
He had to go, so the city manager, Michael Burns, responded to “hostile social media chatter.”
This sort of thing happens when men self-immolate and become eunuchs. They do that when they have lost all bearing, have no more moral moorings, have broken their moral compass, and have given up in the face of evil.