Oh my god, how much more of this kind of stuff do we need to hear before we finally conclude that the people pushing this kind of thing are literally insane. This officer needs to be fired even if...
Oh my god, how much more of this kind of stuff do we need to hear before we finally conclude that the people pushing this kind of thing are literally insane.
This officer needs to be fired even if for nothing more than wage theft, because keeping this an open case for more than two years and reading the full text of 11 books for "evidence" sure seems like a waste of an officer's time that could be spent investigating crimes that are, you know, real. Not to mention the tenacity of the guy to say that this was all being done just because he received a complaint. That might be the world's most transparent lie. I couldn't help but notice that the article doesn't mention that it was paid by the police department, and it's really hard to believe a person is not personally invested if they literally invested their own money into it.
The law enforcement officer spent months methodically gathering evidence. He leafed through thousands of pages and highlighted key passages amid reams and reams of paper. He wore his body camera to record his interactions with witnesses and suspects. And he photographed what he saw as instruments of the alleged crime:
Books.
The targets of the investigation? Three school librarians in Granbury, Texas. The allegation? They had allowed children to access literature — such as “The Bluest Eye,” by Toni Morrison — that the officer, Scott London, a chief deputy constable, had deemed obscene.
Oh my god, how much more of this kind of stuff do we need to hear before we finally conclude that the people pushing this kind of thing are literally insane.
This officer needs to be fired even if for nothing more than wage theft, because keeping this an open case for more than two years and reading the full text of 11 books for "evidence" sure seems like a waste of an officer's time that could be spent investigating crimes that are, you know, real. Not to mention the tenacity of the guy to say that this was all being done just because he received a complaint. That might be the world's most transparent lie. I couldn't help but notice that the article doesn't mention that it was paid by the police department, and it's really hard to believe a person is not personally invested if they literally invested their own money into it.