NJ Cop Under Investigation for Facebook Rant: ‘F*ck the Muslims… Trump for President’

A New Jersey police officer is the subject of an investigation over a lengthy and profane Facebook rant he posted this week.

This is the post in question, as posted by NJ.com:

Officer Alex Pino explained to NJ.com that he posted the comment “in the heat of the moment” in response to something posted by a Facebook friend. He said he was simply “defending” himself and his fellow officers.

He explained his comments about Muslims thusly:

He said that “of course I would protect (Muslims), you know, the good ones, not the extremists.”

“I was not directing that toward the good Muslims, I was directing that toward the terrorists… I’m completely against hurting people,” he said. “It was taken the wrong way. I should have (explained myself) more in detail. All ‘Muslims’ is wrong. Now the good Muslims are taking severe offense to that. That was not my intention.”

A spokesperson for the Hudson County Sheriff’s Office said that they launched an internal investigation on Tuesday. A Muslim high school teacher who was mentioned in the post said that Pino apologized to him.

[h/t Raw Story]
[image via screengrab/NJ.com, featured image via Shutterstock]

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