Lowell. Michigan, Police Chief Resigns After Facebook Posts Supporting The Second Amendment
BY Herschel Smith
4 years, 4 months ago
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.
On June 10, 2020 at 1:34 am, Archer said:
“We at the Lowell Police Department support the legally armed citizen and the second amendment,” he wrote.
The LEO path is to support the Constitution. Not parts of it; the whole thing. ALL amendments.
If he had come out and said, “We at the Lowell Police Department support the outspoken citizen and the first amendment,” is that “too political”? Would he still be forced to resign or be fired?
What if he came out and said he supports the right of the various protesters to protest, also under the first amendment?
The Bill of Rights isn’t a Chinese buffet. Political leaders don’t get to pick and choose which amendments they will support and which they will condemn and attack. If the oath of office means anything anymore, if the office holds any legitimacy, the officeholder must do what the oath says: support and defend the Constutution.
All of it.
On June 10, 2020 at 8:18 am, penses said:
No. It is not a Chinese buffet. It is something else entirely.
You are missing all the penumbras ghosted into Muh Constitution by the left. Recently we were made aware of the “freedom from religion” announced to us by “Justice” Roberts. You can go to church “with permission of the state” based on the feelings of your local dictator but you can riot and loot at your leisure.
In the future I am sure we will be informed by other judges that declaring your income stream as “nonessential” is the job of the state and not economic conditions; and wearing facemasks are a duty not an option, and so on and so forth.
But the man we have to thank for this new “body of rights held to be guaranteed by implication in a civil constitution” is Donald Trump for shutting down the country and imprisoning its citizens allowing the justices to ponder the new “space of partial illumination” surrounding Muh Constitution allowing justices to see “the full light” of new government powers “surrounding the dark central portion” of the God given rights in Muh Constitution dismissing original intent with the stroke of a pen. And don’t forget Mr. Trumps own penumbras: bump stocks; suppressors; red flag laws. All unconstitutional but found to be legal somewhere inside his tiny tweet infested brain.
On June 10, 2020 at 8:41 am, Fred said:
More bowing down, but to an internet mob. Being a man is Baaaaaaaad.
On June 10, 2020 at 2:16 pm, TheOtherGeorge said:
“… but you can riot and loot at your leisure.”
– Only if you are black. There’s two standards now- one for us and one for them. And God help us if they do manage to get the black Communist government that they are looking to install. Our situation will be analogous to that of Whites in South Africa today.
On June 10, 2020 at 5:54 pm, Randolph Scott said:
We won’t be playing ‘cowboys and indians’ this time around. It will be ‘cowboys and blackguys’. Ask the indians how it worked out for them.
On June 10, 2020 at 8:22 pm, X said:
We’re living in Soviet Amerika, kids… for real.
On June 10, 2020 at 9:09 pm, luke2236 said:
There is NO freedom of speech. He should make them fire him and sue for wrongful termination. man would I like to be on that jury…