Pro-Trump Seattle cop is fired for making offensive Instagram posts where he suggested targeting Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama with a mail package bomb to 'shut them up'

  • An unnamed Seattle Police Department officer has been terminated following an internal investigation into Instagram post he made 
  • A complainant - an anonymous woman - shared post made by the officer that included 'extremely profane language'
  • Using the username 'officerdg,' the officer made one post that included a picture of a mail package bomb and the message: 'I don't condone sending package bombs but god it would be nice for Killary and Anti cop Obama to finally STFU!'
  • The Trump supporting officer blasted Obama's impact on the economy, using #maga #trump2020 #trump
  • The officer, referred to in the investigation as NE#1 - was interviewed by OPA and admitted to making the posts under the Instagram username 
  • Officials did share that the officer's initials - 'DG' - were included in his Instagram username and that he repeatedly identified himself as a police officer

An unnamed Seattle Police Department officer has been terminated following an internal investigation into Instagram post he made that were shared by an anonymous complainant

An unnamed Seattle Police Department officer has been terminated following an internal investigation into Instagram post he made that were shared by an anonymous complainant  

A Seattle police officer has been fired after an internal investigation found that he violated the department's social media policy by posting offensive remarks about President Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton

The unnamed officer was found to have violated two specific policies: one stating employees should not make posts that negatively impact the department's ability to serve the public and the other stating that employees should strive to be professional. 

The Seattle Office of Police Accountability (OPA) shared in a closed case summary of the investigation that the officer's Instagram posts were looked into after an anonymous complainant emailed several of them to the department. 

In the email, the complainant - an anonymous woman - shared that the post made by the officer included 'extremely profane language,' and posts that 'attack[ed] certain groups of people... [and] people's political views.' 

She provided several of the officer's Instagram post to OPA. 

Using the username 'officerdg,' the officer made one post that included a picture of a mail package bomb and the message: 'I don't condone sending package bombs but god it would be nice for Killary and Anti cop Obama to finally STFU! Maybe Obama will stop lying and claiming the good economy is from him. #maga #trump2020 #trump.'

President Barack Obama
Hillary Clinton

Using the username 'officerdg,' the officer made one post that included a picture of a mail package bomb and the message: 'I don't condone sending package bombs but god it would be nice for Killary and Anti cop Obama to finally STFU! Maybe Obama will stop lying and claiming the good economy is from him. #maga #trump2020 #trump'

A second post included a picture of the Trump supporting officer (named NE#1 by OPA) and had the caption: 'If you support illegal immigrants coming into our country so much then make a difference and bring them into your home and YOU support them you fucksticks! #trump #redwave #republican #makeamericagreatagain #bluelivesmatter #thinblueline #thickblueline #police #cops #freedom.'

The woman who sent the email to OPA further declared that the posts were 'not becoming of a Seattle PD officer' and were 'in violation of the PD manual on social media conduct.'   

She was interviewed by OPA, informing them that she was an acquaintance of the officer and had been following him on Instagram for roughly five years.

The woman who reported the posts had looked up the SPD policy concerning social media usage and expressed worry with the hashtags the officer used

The woman who reported the posts had looked up the SPD policy concerning social media usage and expressed worry with the hashtags the officer used

The woman shared that she grew concerned over the posts and had to look up the SPD policy concerning social media usage. She also expressed worry over the usage of hashtags as the posts could reach a significantly larger audience than the officer's followers.

NE#1 was interviewed by OPA and admitted to making the posts under the Instagram username. The officer claimed that he did not believe the posts established a bias on his part, adding that he was criticizing 'illegal immigration' as a practice. 

He did, however, acknowledge that the statements did negatively impact the Department's ability to serve the public and also admitted that they were not professional. 

According to the report summary, the officer told OPA that he would not have made the posts in hindsight.  

Officials did share that the officer's initials - 'DG' - were included in his Instagram username and that he repeatedly identified himself as a police officer

Officials did share that the officer's initials - 'DG' - were included in his Instagram username and that he repeatedly identified himself as a police officer

'As NE#1 acknowledged, his postings negatively impacted the Department's ability to serve the public,' OPA state in their report. 'This is due to the fact that he appeared to endorse violence against political figures in one posting and, in the other, engaged in a profanity laced critique both of 'illegal immigration' and of those individuals who may support a different political position on this issue than he holds.'

OPA did share that the officer's initials - 'DG' - were included in his Instagram username and that he repeatedly identified himself as a police officer. 

'OPA concludes that he identified himself as a police officer when he used profanity directed as an insult and derogatory, contemptuous, and disrespected language,' they stated in the summary.

'Moreover, as NE#1 recognized at his OPA interview, the content of his postings served to undermine public trust in himself, his fellow officers, and the Department as a whole.'