An Ohio cop was fired after celebrating the suicide of a Black Lives Matter activist.
The Fairborn Police Department fired Officer Lee Cyr for a Facebook comment he wrote while off duty, WDTN reported Monday. Cyr commented, “Love a happy ending” in a post on the Ohio Politics page about the suicide of a Black Lives Matter activist who shot himself on the steps of the Ohio Statehouse.
Ohio Officer Lee Cyr suspended for calling the suicide of #MarshawnMcCarrel a “happy ending” https://t.co/LpAckz1CNK pic.twitter.com/2IzMO6zj9R
— Shaun King (@ShaunKing) February 12, 2016
The Fairborn police condemned the comment.
“When we were made aware of a Facebook post that was linked to a Fairborn police officer, an internal affairs complaint was initiated,” Fairborn Police Chief Terry Barlow told Dayton Daily News. “Post that may discredit the police department are against policy, Barlow said. “… We take this seriously. We will ensure the professional standards of the department are upheld.”
Black Lives Matter activist MarShawn M. McCarrel II, 23, fatally shot himself in February after writing a Facebook post hinting at suicide.
“My demons won today,” he wrote. “I’m sorry.”
“We have received a lot of negative responses,” Tristina Allen, 21, who knew McCarrel through the Black Lives Matter movement and the Ohio Student Association, told Dayton Daily News in February. “I think it is completely unacceptable for someone who is supposed to protect and serve to have that comment towards someone who is dead.”
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