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Looks like Michelle Obama sat next to—and honored—a former police officer who is actually a rapist, domestic violence offender, and repeated abuser/assaulter. Maybe it doesn’t count quite so much if he technically hadn’t been arrested for rape until after she hung out with him. You be the judge.
From Pat Dollard:
A former Philadelphia police officer once hailed as a hero and given a seat next to the first lady at a speech by President Obama has been arrested and charged with rape and other crimes.
Richard DeCoatsworth, a cop who was shot in the face during a traffic stop in 2007, left a party with two women this week and ended up allegedly raping them at gunpoint. Now, before you start screaming that Michelle couldn’t possibly have known he wasn’t the greatest date, allow me to help you out with the following facts:
He is currently facing 32 different charges on the three current crimes.
One would think Michelle wouldn’t want to be seen with such a lousy criminal. Then again…
Aren’t there people in the White House whose job it is to screen people for shit like this *BEFORE* they actually get invited?
Kate says: Hi Miss Ladybug!!
You’re applying reason and standards that The Imperial WH just does’t have. 😉
As much as I dislike our First Lady, I can’t criticize her for this: she has a staff full of people who are supposed to check these things out, and ’twas they who failed in their duty, not her.
Nor was it just her minions; the Secret Service should have checked up on this man as well, but (apparently) didn’t do a very thorough job of it.
Zelda says: Since the occupiers of the WH are known to consort with the likes of Bill Ayers, Louis Farakhan, Eric Holder for that matter (one of his ‘closest friends’), and the like, why would the Secret Service have any sway in who gets let into the “inner circle”? Just sayin’.
I will have to side with Dana on this one. It makes me wonder where in the world was the Secret Service when someone was supposed to be vetting this fella.
And there’s more exculpatory evidence her. Officer DeCoatsworth was seated next to the First Lady during the President’s February, 2009, State of the Union speech, before any of the specifically noted incidents. (Some of the internal affairs incidents may have occurred prior to that time.) How much questionable history did Officer DeCoatsworth have on his record in early 2009?
This is starting to look like a nothing story to me.
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