JJGerms•

Cloyd Steiger, a former Seattle Police homicide detective who worked as a chief criminal investigator for the state attorney general, allegedly raised his voice as he was leaving the restaurant. He also wrote on his restaurant bill, "BLM button = no tip. That's how socialism works;" and posted a copy of the written receipt, which bore the waitress's name, on social media, according to the attorney general's office.

"By your actions, you have irreparably compromised your credibility and brought significant embarrassment and disruption to the office," said a letter from Deputy Attorney General Todd Bowers setting out the reasons for Steiger's dismissal.

Makes sense to me.

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Especially because other employees came forward and stated they were uncomfortable working with him now. It's not just a matter of oh your politics are wrong, it's how he went about it and acted.

I mean, I harbor some political opinions that I know would be distasteful and off putting to some of my co-workers or people who are serving me at a restaurant. Want to know what my secret is? I treat other people who disagree with me with respect and keep them the fuck to myself.

I don't blame the AGs office for taking this as a sign this guy has extremely poor judgement and self control. Unfortunately, I'm sure there will be no shortage of people crying till the cows come home that he was unfairly targeted and saying stupid shit like if it had been a blue loves matter button he would have gotten a raise.

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That’s a good perspective. My understanding is that the AG‘s office has a culture of mutual respect, and violations of that can be taken pretty seriously. This seems like a really extreme example where someone was pretty much asking for it.

As a longtime Seattle police officer and then state employee, he may have some extraordinary pension benefits to coast on as he slides deeper into a racist old age.

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His sons are employed at SPD. I’ll withhold commentary on what “qualities” I think they bring to the city.

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Let’s just say the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.

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You’re seriously going after his family?

Something tells me you have some embarrassing personal reasons for disliking cops, lol.

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wow this is interesting, about 15 people have dropped by to vote for your suggestion of going after families. Pretty depressing, depraved stuff.

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The nature of far left movements is to wipe the slate a bit clean with respect to moral rules.

Unfortunately this leaves them open to repeating three thousand year old mistakes, as here.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sins_of_the_Father

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Kinky-Iconoclast•

Good. That investigator sounds like a real shit head.

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The shit apple doesn’t fall far from the shit tree Randy

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widdershins13Capitol Hill•

The guy was a douche and doxed his server over philosophical differences. Sounds like he was a bad fit for the job and the AG office is better off without him.

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He'll sue, and win.

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Big crystal ball energy.

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Sue for what? You can be fired for pretty much any reason in this state without explanation. If you’re a public figure, civil servant this comes with the territory.

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People say stupid shit like this all the time on reddit without any real insight into how labor laws work. I'm sure the highest ranking attorney in the state did absolutely no research into the legality of firing this employee under that employees contract terms. Yep, every lawyer I've ever met hates covering their ass 🙄

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