The former president of the Santa Clara County Deputy Sheriffs Association is appealing his recent demotion at work, newly obtained documents reveal.
Don Morrissey doesn’t think it’s fair that he was demoted to deputy last year after it was revealed he not only failed to report hate speech made by several officers under his supervision, but that he gleefully engaged in numerous group texts filled with racist, homophobic, and misogynist slurs.
3,000 texts were exchanged between several employees of the Santa Clara County Police Department between December 2014 and June 2015.
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Morrissey was an active participant in group texts, where officers regularly called people “n*gger f*aggots,” “n*gger loving retards,” a “Mexican Mudshark,” “howler monkeys,” and “n*g nogs.”
“The following message is Pope Francis approved,” one officer wrote, “all n*gger f*ggots go to hell.”
“Filthy n*ggers have never been thought of highly,” another officer said. “Sorry if I offended any of you n*gger loving p*ssy f*gs.”
Not once did Morrissey step in to put a stop the behavior. In fact, in at least one instance, he responded by jokingly writing: “Who are you people [and] how did you get my number?”
In another thread, Morrissey joked about inmates performing sex acts for commissary items, writing, “So a blow job for soup seems fair right (sic) Ryan.”
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And in another, an officer texted, “Child molester and a moully??? Justified shoot.” To which Morrissey responded, “Hahaha.”
Moully (or “moolie”) is a racial slur against African Americans.
A disciplinary review board voted to demote Morrissey last year; however, Sheriff Laurie Smith believes he should have been fired for doing more to put a stop to the behavior.
“These are outrageous and racist comments,” she says. “To see this level of hatred is unusual.”
Morrissey was previously demoted from lieutenant to sergeant in 2012 after an internal investigation found he had spent hours and hours looking at porn while at work.
Neither Morrissey nor the Santa Clara County Deputy Sheriffs Association have issued comments on the appeal.
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Juanjo
Santa Clara County is well known for its cowboy attitude among its law enforcement and prosecutors. I have a friend who was a prosecutor there for a number of years before he left and went into private practice. He said they were always instructed to overcharge and never dismiss cases even if they had nothing. They were supposed to try for a plea deal to a lesser included offense. This violates the law and rules of ethics for a prosecutor whose job is to do justice NOT convict someone of a crime if there is no evidence they committed it.
Deputies here have been caught engaging in sexual acts with prisoners, forcing prisoners to fight each other and bet on the outcome, and also to beat up prisoners, leaving a mentally ill man to die as a result. of a beating and then altering the scene to make it appear the man had committed suicide.
Lacuevaman
asshole, you started lying when you said “i have a friend…” you dont have any friends
DCguy
Notice how the point of Lacuevaman’s tweet is to defelect from the topic?
This is an account that consistently comes in to defend Trump and anti-lgbt bigots.
Also, this is the second post by him in a few days where he is directly calling somebody a name. Cylest? You around?
Ukin Blome
Lacuevaman, name calling is not appropriate. This post is an accurate portrayal of the situation in Santa Clara County. Everything Juanjo has posted has been reported to have happened by our local news outlets.
Brian
These cops are so racist they’re saying slurs I’ve never heard before. I can’t believe they all still have jobs. No, wait, I can believe it. Cops can do pretty much anything they like. They have zero accountability and zero credibility.
msfrost
He’s only a victim, of his own stupidity!
buzzy58
I don’t get it. Where in the article does he explain why he is a victim? It just doesn’t make any sense!
Kangol
Maybe Queerty extrapolated that because he’s appealing the demotion, when his racist, anti-gay @ss should have been fired, and he should have accepted it. Clean the house of all of these scumbags, since it’s quite clear from their comments that they cannot serve as fair arbiters of the non-white people they’re interacting with.
DCguy
My question is this…..
Why do ANY of the cops on that text chain still have their jobs?
Here’s an idea, stop cutting taxes on people like Mitt Romney, pay cops more, fire racists and get better people to do the job who will be attracted by the better pay.
You couldn’t trust any of those people to police LGBT or Black people based upon their texts to each other.
Kevan1
Lacuevaman is just another closeted gay man who hates his conflicting fantasies of getting up the bum and what he was taught as a young man to be wrong. One has to ask, if people like LACUEVAMAN hate gays so much , why do they troll for these sites and make these crazy comments that will not change anybodies minds about who they are and what they believe. They just want the gay boys attention is all I can come up with.
Kevan1
P.S. Don Morrissey and his boys can cry me a river and go drown in it.