Geraldine Assistant Police Chief fired after controversial Facebook post

Geraldine Assistant Police Chief fired after controversial Facebook post

New information -- the city of geraldine fired the assistant police chief after a controversial facebook post against house speaker nancy pelosi!

Officer jeff buckles wrote - quote - "road side bomb on her way home" after pelosi ripped up the president's state of the union speech.

Waay 31's alex torres-perez learned more about the city's decision.

The mayor told me that the geraldine assistant police chief was fired not because of what he wrote on facebook but because the post itself was against the city's social media policy.

Charley smalley "we're entitled to a freedom of speech."

It's an opinion most people i talked to agree with.

Ables "in my opinion, it wasn't any kind of a threat."

Mayor chuck ables says the city placed the officer on paid leave to investigate and hold a due process hearing.

The hearing is similar to a trial.

An attorney from fort payne was chosen to be the impartial decision maker.

After hearing from both sides, he filed a 3 page report and recommended firing officer buckles for violating the city's social media policy.

Ables "he was acting like a judge, so i felt like we should honor his recommendation.

" that report cannot be shared because the officer chose to make his hearing private.

The mayor says buckles understands the consequences.

He was apologetic.

I'm sorry that it came to this, but it's jsut one of those decisions, where we have policies, where we are sworn into office to uphold the constitution and the policies and rules of our town, and that's the decision that was made.

I asked the mayor to see the city's social media policy but we wouldn't/couldn't provide one.

He did say the policy includes a section explaining officers shouldn't post anything disrespectful against the town or others.

Reporting in geraldine atp waay 31 news.