Remember the Nordstrom employee that advocating killing white police officers? Well in the words of the great Duck Commander, he gone:
USA TODAY – Nordstrom has fired a Portland employee after the sales associate apparently posted a controversial statement using his personal Facebook page advocating the killing of police officers.
“What our former employee chose to post from his personal account does not in any way reflect our views as a company,” said Tara Darrow, a Nordstrom corporate affairs spokeswoman. “We do not tolerate violence, violent conversation or threats of any kind.”
Nordstrom sales associate Aaron Hodges has since taken down his Facebook and Twitter accounts, but a screen shot of his comment has been circulating online. In response to recent police shootings, Hodges, who is black, suggested on Facebook:
“Instead of slamming the police, I prefer a Kenny Fort approach. Every time an unarmed black man is killed, you kill a decorated white officer, on his door step in front of his family.”
Breaking911 reports Hodges’ defense of himself:
Hodges, who is African-American, said Tuesday he’s troubled by the police killings of Michael Brown in Missouri, Eric Garner in New York and Tamir Rice in Ohio, and he made the Facebook comment in an exchange with a friend from high school. Hodges said he sometimes says outrageous things to ‘bring things into scope’ and didn’t literally mean that white officers should be killed.
‘I’m a black Mormon, so there’s no way I could be racist,’ he said. ‘I’m just passionate about black issues because nobody else seems to be.’
Here’s a rule to live by: Don’t say things you don’t mean. Period. Because when you say outrageous things there are always consequences lurking around the corner. And in this case they caught up to him and deservedly so.
UPDATE: I regrettably said Hodges ‘threatened’ to kill white police officers. He did not. But he did advocate it and that’s why he got fired. I have updated the article.