{"id":33261,"date":"2018-07-29T13:04:34","date_gmt":"2018-07-29T20:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=33261"},"modified":"2018-07-29T13:04:34","modified_gmt":"2018-07-29T20:04:34","slug":"republicans-on-parade-7-29-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/07\/29\/republicans-on-parade-7-29-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans on Parade – 7\/29\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Here is the one hundred twenty-seventh article in our Republicans on Parade series, featuring individuals who personify what the Republican Party has become. Today\u2019s honorees are Republican former NOLA police officers, John Galman and Spencer Sutton.   They are so honored for the racist Republican way they beat the crap out of a Latino using the excuse that they didn’t like his camouflage clothing.<\/font><\/p>\n

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It\u2019s frustratingly rare that law enforcement officers are held accountable for wrongdoing, especially when people of color are the victims of violence at the hands of white cops. Perhaps that\u2019s what makes this story so surprising: less than 24 hours after George Gomez was beaten to a pulp near his New Orleans home, the cops responsible found themselves in handcuffs\u2014and out of a job<\/a><\/font><\/font><\/span><\/font><\/span><\/font>.<\/font><\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

Gomez, 36, tells <\/font><\/span>The Advocate\u2019s <\/em><\/span><\/font>Ramon Antonio Vargas that he encountered John Galman, 26, and Spencer Sutton, 24, at the Mid-City Yacht Club early Tuesday morning. Turns out the off-duty cops didn\u2019t care for Gomez\u2019s sartorial choices.<\/font><\/span><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

Gomez said […] one said he didn’t like the military camouflage shirt and pants being worn by Gomez<\/strong>, who is Hispanic.<\/font><\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

"He asked me if I was American. I told him yes, and he got mad because he said I was fake," said Gomez, who described himself as a U.S. native who was raised in Honduras before returning to live in New Orleans.<\/font><\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

Gomez, who speaks Spanish as well as English with an accent, also described being asked if he served in the military.<\/font><\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

Gomez said he did serve, including with the Louisiana National Guard, but the man who took issue with his clothing wasn’t satisfied with any of his answers.<\/font><\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

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Gomez claims he then walked to his home nearby, and got in his truck, only to encounter Galman and Sutton, who blocked his vehicle and confronted him. Gomez says that neither man identified themselves as police officers<\/strong>\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/font><\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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I don’t have much to add.  However, when I read the article on Kos, I was wearing a camouflage T identical to the one Gomez was wearing, and that felt very weird.<\/font><\/p>\n

Those two should be prosecuted for a hate crime and and permanently banned from police work everywhere.<\/font><\/p>\n

RESIST!!<\/font><\/font><\/h1>\n

VOTE BLUE!!<\/font><\/font><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here is the one hundred twenty-seventh article in our Republicans on Parade series, featuring individuals who personify what the Republican Party has become. Today\u2019s honorees are Republican former NOLA police officers, John Galman and Spencer Sutton.   They are so honored for the racist Republican way they beat the crap out of a Latino using the […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}