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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMayor of a Pittsburgh suburb asked police to hose down protesters with water cannons
(CNN) A Pennsylvania mayor is apologizing for posting Facebook images urging police to "bring the hoses" against protesters and blast them with water cannons, evoking images of the civil rights era.
Karen Peconi is the mayor of Arnold, a suburb of Pittsburgh.
Her posts surfaced Monday with messages urging officers to hose down protesters, along with a historic 1963 image of water cannons being used against demonstrators in Alabama, according to CNN affiliate WTAE.
"I'm posting this so the authorities everywhere sees (sic) this ... bring the hoses," Peconi wrote, according to the affiliate. "They don't care about jobs for PGH ... none of them work now. That's how they can do this at 7 a.m. Very sad."
Protesters have taken to the streets for days to demand justice in last week's killing of unarmed African-American teen Antwon Rose by a white police officer in East Pittsburgh.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2018/06/28/us/pittsburgh-suburb-mayor-water-cannons-protesters-trnd/index.html
Solly Mack
(90,802 posts)POS
benfranklin1776
(6,458 posts)A special breed of modern day Know Nothing fascist: wholly ignorant, racist and proud enough of those abhorrent traits to display them for all the world to see. Particularly odious in that if she is of Italian American ancestry, as suggested by her surname, then her immigrant forebears, like mine, were subjected to the same despicable racist character judgments and violence she revels in encouraging. To quote her brain dead cult leader: Sad.
Aristus
(66,530 posts)That kind of passive-aggressive editorializing.
Trump loves that shit.
"UNFAIR!"
"SAD!"
"VERY SAD!"
Solly Mack
(90,802 posts)Yep
lpbk2713
(42,775 posts)...
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)Note the dehumanizing language. She's gotta go.
Initech
(100,149 posts)What is wrong with these people?
IronLionZion
(45,666 posts)what if we go back even further to when America was not great for people with last names like Peconi? What is it with these fascists always throwing someone else under the bus?