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Va. fire department investigates firefighter’s cop-hate post

Fire chief: “The Fairfax County Fire and Rescue Department will not tolerate committing or inciting violence against law enforcement officers.”

By Justin Jouvenal and Antonio Olivo
The Washington Post

FAIRFAX COUNTY, Va. — The Fairfax County fire department is investigating a firefighter after a post appeared on his Facebook account saying police officers should be put in “body bags” because of recent police shootings.

The post from Khalil B. Abdul-Rasheed’s account appeared Saturday in response to a comment on a video of a police shooting on a Facebook forum called “Filming Cops.”

“We have [to] start putting them in body bags … stop filming and rally to your fellow citizen. Pull the cops off, lay on the individual, form a circle or throw punches. Do something … They can’t massacre a mob,” the post read in part.

Full story: Fairfax investigating firefighter over Facebook post saying police should be put in ‘body bags’