Missouri Cop Makes Reckless George Floyd Facebook Posts, Suspended

A Missouri officer was suspended and is in danger of facing termination when he made “reckless” Facebook posts about George Floyd’s death.

The KSDK reported that several people had reported and sent photos of the Hillsdale cop’s offending posts to St. Louis County Prosecutor Wesley Ball.

According to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, tips regarding the posts were sent to Bell’s office more than a week ago.

One of the posts mocked Floyd’s infamous plight about not being able to breathe.

“If you’re speaking, you’re breathin’”, the since deleted post said.

A Facebook user called out the cop in the comments saying, ‘Go to sleep. Night’ which then started a back and forth between the two with the offending officer maintaining a mocking tone in his responses.

“But I can’t breathe,” he replied to which the user responded that the comment was not funny and “Let me handcuff you and put my knee in back of your neck for HALF that time.”

The cop followed up with a GIF of a black actor crying on a pillow.

“This was a public forum,” Bell told the Post-Dispatch. “We do have freedom of speech but you also have to deal with the consequences of that speech.”

Although Bell refused to identify the officer, he told KSDK that he told Hillsdale Police Chief John Bernsen that his department would not take cases from him anymore.

Furthermore, he also plans to review the cop’s past cases to see if they could be prosecuted without him [Bell] as a witness.

According to a New York Post article, the Hillsdale police had not yet responded to any requests for comments early Wednesday.

George Floyd, 46, was a black man who was arrested by Minneapolis officers on May 25 and later died when cop Derek Chauvin pinned him to the ground with a knee on his neck for nearly nine minutes despite Floyd’s pleas and saying that he couldn’t breathe.

“We all saw what happened with Mr. Floyd and how he was killed and it was caught on camera,” Bell said. “And this is not the time for reckless and inappropriate comments.

Meanwhile, Bernsen refused to comment when the Post-Dispatch reached him and instead referred calls to the Hillsdale’s city attorney.