Seems some geriatric fuckers need to learn how to use google before fucking over their LEOs.
JASPER, Ala. (WBMA) — Four officers in the Jasper Police Department were suspended for making a hand gesture while posing for a photo. Some people claimed the circular gesture was racist, according to the city’s mayor, David O’Mary.
Jasper Mayor David O’Mary confirms 4 police officers have been suspended w/o pay for the gesture in this photo published last week in the Daily Mountain Eagle. Many know it as the ‘Circle Game” but some say it’s racist & means ‘White Power’. @abc3340 pic.twitter.com/86gxnP7k8g
— Stephen Quinn (@StephenQ3340) July 16, 2018
The mayor said some have claimed the gesture was meant to express the phrase “white power.” Many in Jasper who spoke on camera to ABC 33/40 News see it differently. They say it is the gesture used in the “circle game.” Popular among kids, the idea of the game is for the person to trick the other into looking at the circle gesture displayed below their waist.
“It’s a kid game. Going around and hitting everybody when you see it,” said one man in downtown Jasper immediately after viewing the photo.
The photo was published in the Daily Mountain Eagle last week after an arrest by the department’s drug terrorism task force in the Frisco community. The mayor said he organized the photo because he wanted the officers to receive credit for their work. He said he has not spoken to them since to ask what they meant by the gesture. He said it doesn’t matter.
“That’s contradictory…