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<h6 class="spaced spaced-xl spaced-top spaced-bottom abdp-headline"><span style="color: #302828;"><strong>Brooklyn court officer suspended after posting meme depicting Obama lynching</strong></span></h6>
<h6 class="spaced spaced-xl spaced-top spaced-bottom abdp-headline"><span style="color: #302828;"><strong>Sgt. Terri Pinto Napolitano posted the vile meme to her Facebook over the weekend, showing former president Barack Obama swinging from a noose </strong></span></h6>
<h6 class="spaced spaced-xl spaced-top spaced-bottom abdp-headline"><span style="color: #302828;"><strong>“We will not yield,” the meme reads “Your day is coming TRAITOR”</strong></span></h6>
<h6 class="spaced spaced-xl spaced-top spaced-bottom abdp-headline"><span style="color: #302828;"><strong>Other screen grabs of her Facebook postings show a meme of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton being led to the gallows</strong></span></h6>
<h6 class="spaced spaced-xl spaced-top spaced-bottom abdp-headline"><span style="color: #302828;"><strong>The text that goes with the image says, “IT’S NOT OVER TILL THE FAT LADY SWINGS&#8221; </strong></span></h6>
<h6 class="spaced spaced-xl spaced-top spaced-bottom abdp-headline"><span style="color: #302828;"><strong>She was suspended for 30 days without pay, her gun taken</strong></span></h6>
<h6 class="spaced spaced-xl spaced-top spaced-bottom abdp-headline"><span style="color: #302828;"><strong>Furthermore, an investigation was opened by NY court system’s IG to determine if more disciplinary action will be taken</strong></span></h6>
<h6 class="spaced spaced-xl spaced-top spaced-bottom abdp-headline">&#8220;We do “not condone the conduct of Sgt. Napolitano and her racist Facebook post&#8221; said the NY state court officers union which has disavowed her actions</h6>
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<h6 class="byline-wrapper"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-348630" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Terri-Pinto-Napolitano-1.jpg" alt="Terri Pinto Napolitano 1" width="677" height="507" />Sgt. Terri Pinto Napolitano according to the state court officers union, has now been hit with departmental charge</h6>
<div><span style="color: var(--color-text); font-size: 1rem;">A Brooklyn court officer was suspended and had her gun taken away after she posted a racist meme depicting former President Barack Obama being lynched.<br />
</span><span style="color: var(--color-text); font-size: 1rem;">Sgt. Terri Pinto Napolitano posted the vile meme to her Facebook over the weekend, showing former president Barack Obama swinging from a noose, according to screen grabs.<br />
</span><span style="color: var(--color-text); font-size: 1rem;">“We will not yield,” the meme she posted reads. “Your day is coming TRAITOR.”</span></div>
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<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-348632" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/terri-pinto-napolitano-72.jpg" alt="terri-pinto-napolitano-72" width="944" height="690" /></p>
<p class="">In another meme posted alongside, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is led to the gallows. The text that goes with the image says, “IT’S NOT OVER TILL THE FAT LADY SWINGS.&#8221;<br />
The posting also includes two hashtags: “#Obamagate” and “#treason.”<br />
<span style="color: var(--color-text); font-size: 1rem;">Napolitano was suspended for 30 days without pay, had her gun taken, and an investigation was opened by the state court system’s inspector general to determine if more disciplinary action will be taken, an Office of Court Administration spokesman told The News.<br />
</span><span style="color: var(--color-text); font-size: 1rem;">“It has come to our attention that a Unified Court System employee recently posted on Facebook a vile, racist photo,” wrote OCA Chief Judge Janet DiFiore in a letter to staff Saturday.<br />
</span><span style="color: var(--color-text); font-size: 1rem;">“This conduct is abhorrent, by anyone, at any time, and under any circumstances. But at this critical moment in our history — when our nation is reeling from the death of George Floyd and its aftermath — it is a sickening and unpardonable offense against every colleague in our court system.”<br />
</span><span style="color: var(--color-text); font-size: 1rem;">Court officers also responded directly on Napolitano’s post.<br />
</span><span style="color: var(--color-text); font-size: 1rem;">“A Black man hanging on a noose is never appropriate but especially not in times like the ones we are living in today,” wrote one court officer responding to Napolitano’s post.<br />
</span><span style="color: var(--color-text); font-size: 1rem;">The court officers union did not lend Napolitano support, saying in a post that it does “not condone the conduct of Sgt. Napolitano and her racist Facebook posts,&#8221; along with the hashtags, #blacklivesmatter and #nyscourts.</span></p>
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