Cop who lost job after mocking LeBron James is offered a new job during a live TV appearance



Nate Silvester, the former police officer who lost his job after he made a viral video mocking LeBron James, reportedly received a job offer during a live TV appearance, the Police Tribune reported on Thursday.

What's a brief history here?

Silvester — a former officer at the Bellevue Marshal's Office in Idaho — was fired after the video made rounds on the internet, having initially been suspended.

James came under fire in April after he posted a photo to Twitter featuring the officer involved in the police shooting of Ohio teen Ma'Khia Bryant. He captioned the officer's photo, "YOU'RE NEXT. #ACCOUNTABILITY."

Following James' tweet, Silvester made headlines with his impersonation of an officer phoning James for direction on how to handle a police call.

What are the details?

The outlet reported on Thursday that Silvester was offered a job at the Pinal County Sheriff's Office in Arizona during a recent interview with Newsmax's Chris Salcedo and Pinal County Sheriff Mark Lamb.

Recalling his firing, Silvester said, "I was policing in a very liberal area, the city of Bellevue, Idaho. The mayor and city council members [are] registered Democrats, and they buy into this radicalism that's being pushed by the left and especially the anti-police narrative — they're buying into it totally."

He said that after the video went viral, city officials weren't happy and immediately began plotting his removal.

Lamb told Silvester that he'd be glad to give him a job at the sheriff's office and lauded Silvester's "guts" in standing up for what he believed.

"Nate was speaking truth," Lamb insisted. "Too many agencies across this country are afraid of cancel culture. They're afraid to let their people speak truth. We respect the First Amendment, even with our employees. All we ask is that they don't do anything to disparage the badge or anything illegal, immoral, or unethical."

Lamb added that he saw nothing wrong with Silvester's video.

"We're hiring, Nate," he added. "Come on down. We respect police in Arizona, especially in Pinal County. We're always looking for guys who aren't afraid to go out and do their job."

Following Silvester's unceremonious firing, a GoFundMe to benefit Silvester received more than $543,000 at the time of this reporting.

A portion of the donations has been earmarked for the First Responders Children's Foundation, according to the outlet.

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Sen. John Kennedy: If you hate cops so much, ‘call a meth head the next time you’re in trouble’



Republican Sen. John Kennedy (La.) on Monday advised anti-police activists to "call a meth head" the next time they're in danger and in need of assistance.

What are the details?

The conservative lawmaker, known for his folksy witticisms, made the suggestion during an interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity Monday evening while the two were discussing the continued anti-police sentiment expressed by progressive activists and Democratic politicians.

"I've said it before, if you hate cops just because they're cops, feel free to call a criminal, call a meth head the next time you get in trouble," Kennedy said.

"I just do not accept, nor do I think most Americans accept, that most cops are bad people, or racist," he went on to say. "They don't get up every day and go into work hoping they can hurt somebody. Most of them get up every day and hope they can themselves come back home alive."

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Earlier in the interview, Kennedy noted that police officers "have about 60 million encounters with Americans every year," the vast majority of which end without insult or injury.

He suggested that when someone is injured or killed during a police-involved incident that an investigation ought to be conducted before assumptions are made. Though waiting for the facts of a particular case to emerge is not something in style in today's reactionary society.

What else?

Kennedy went on to state a few propositions, which he insisted reflect "common sense" and with which most Americans would agree.

"Number one, most cops, many of whom happen to be Black, do not get up every day and go to work hoping for the opportunity to hurt a person of color," the senator said.

"Number two, cops are necessary," he argued. "If you support defunding the police, you have tested positive for stupid."

"Number three, it is immeasurably foolish to resist arrest," Kennedy continued. "It is going to end badly even if no one is hurt."

Lastly — in reference to the recent police shooting of Ma'Khia Bryant in Columbus, Ohio — Kennedy requested, "If you are a cop and you see someone about to stab me, I would personally appreciate it if you would stop them. Shoot them if you have to, I don't care who they are."

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Rutgers gender and Africana studies professor suggests Ma'Khia Bryant was shot because she was having a 'bad day' and 'not being perfect'



A Rutgers professor appeared on MSNBC's "ReidOut" talk show Thursday night, where she came to the overwhelming defense of Ma'Khia Bryant, a 16-year-old who was shot by a police officer as she was lunging with a knife at another girl.

A panel discussion about the Columbus, Ohio, shooting on "ReidOut" featured the Rev. Al Sharpton, psychologist Phillip Atiba Goff, and Brittney Cooper, who is a Rutgers University associate professor of gender and Africana studies.

"The argument for our movements has never been that black people have to be perfect in order for them to deserve dignity, for us to have good policing, for us to be viewed with humanity, for cops to take a breath before they literally get out of the car guns blazing," Cooper told host Joy Reid.

Cooper claimed that the prosecution of Derek Chauvin had to be "impeccable" to get a conviction against the former police officer, who was found guilty of second-degree murder, third-degree murder, and second-degree manslaughter in the death of George Floyd.

"And if that is the standard, then no black person is really, truly going to be safe if we cannot be having a bad day, if we cannot defend ourselves when we think we are going to get jumped, if we call the cops and they can't show up and tell who the victim is and who the perpetrators are and they can't use their training to adjudicate regular, old, everyday community conflict," Cooper said.

Coincidentally, Cooper lashed out last month at a police spokesperson who relayed a message from the Atlanta spa shooter who said in his own words that he was having a "bad day." Cooper attributed the "bad day" quote to the police spokesperson, but he was paraphrasing the murderer, as Reason reported.

"'Yesterday was a bad day for him.' There is no end to the capacity of law enforcement to empathize with murderous white terrorists," Cooper wrote on Twitter. "WTF!"

Cooper then argued that girls like Bryant are misunderstood, and she was "adultified."

"What are we going to do about the way that we don't understand black girls as girls. Ma'Khia Bryant was a child like Tamir Rice was a child," Cooper said. "And the way that she has been talked about as this, you know, because she was a big girl, right, and so people just see her as the aggressor.

"They don't see her humanity. They have adultified her," Cooper claimed. "We turn black girls into grown women, before they even are able to vote and then, you know, and are unable to see them as children until I have watched folks across the political spectrum really defend this and say – and empathize with the officer, say that he didn't have any other set of choices.

"If you can't figure out how to de-escalate a 16-year-old even with a kitchen knife when you have a gun and you're a grown man, you shouldn't be a cop," Cooper ranted on the cable talk show.

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Sierra Club ties white supremacy, the Derek Chauvin trial, and Ma'Khia Bryant 'murder' to climate change in rambling Earth Day post



Much has been written and posted about social justice, white supremacy, racism, police corruption, and other topics favored by the woke left in the wake of a Minnesota jury finding former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin guilty Tuesday on all counts for the killing of George Floyd.

The verdict and the police shooting of knife-wielding Ma'Khia Bryant in Columbus, Ohio, dominated the national media and were all the rage for the activist left this week — a week that also included the secular left's favorite holiday, Earth Day.

So the radical green Sierra Club wasn't about to let the moment pass without connecting its enviro agenda to the tragedy-exploitation de jour. The far-left group was bound and determined to blame the "structures of oppression and white supremacy" for climate change.

What did the group say?

In a catch-as-catch-can, non sequitur-laden Earth Day post on the organization's website Thursday, Margaret Levin, the senior chapter director for the North Star Chapter in Minnesota, began by declaring the guilty verdict "is not justice" and lamenting the "murder" of Bryant at the hands of the cops.

The police, you see, are merely a function of the "structures of oppression and white supremacy" that have been "set up to exhaust, divide, and frighten us."

Naturally, the white supremacy that allegedly dominates American life and cripples the justice system must be stopped in order to ... protect the environment:

We will continue to work together with our partners to create communities where everyone can thrive, with clean air, water, and energy, and a stable and safe climate for all.

Environmental destruction requires us to believe that some people and communities are disposable, which leads to catastrophes like climate change and polluted air and water. These burdens are most heavily placed on Black, Brown, Indigenous, and Asian communities, as well as other communities of color. White supremacy is a necessary precondition for big polluters' agenda. To protect the planet, we must dismantle systemic racism wherever it exists. We must dismantle harmful police systems and replace them with real investments in people and communities.

Levin continued by pleading with readers to be "co-conspirators" with those who, while under the thumb of "police militarization and violence," have been calling on the government to defund the police. For Levin, this will allow for the promotion of "sustainability, not fossil fuels and pollution."

"[W]e will never achieve a planet where we all can thrive together without ending the threat of police violence," Levin claimed.

If we ever want to have a "livable planet for everyone," Levin concluded, we must start "with protecting Black people's lives from militarized police."

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