A Northern California police officer who posted obscenity-laden comments against Black Lives Matter on a right-wing social media platform is no longer with the department, the police chief said.
Pacific Grove Police Chief Cathy Madalone said in a video posted Wednesday on the department’s YouTube channel the officer is no longer employed by the department but that legal constraints prevented her from commenting on a personnel matter.
Madalone said the department received a report in November that the officer, who has not been identified, may have been posted disparaging remarks against Black Lives Matter movement on his Parler account.
She said the department also investigated the officer last year after it was made aware in May of controversial decals affixed to his vehicle.
The decals on the officer’s pickup included one mocking the LGBT movement and silhouettes of automatic weapons. Another decal named a group called the Three Percenters, a group that’s part of the militia movement and that was among who assaulted the Capitol on Jan. 6, the Monterey Herald reported.
The officer was investigated but exonerated when he claimed he didn’t know what the Three Percenters were, the newspaper reported.