Indiana Dep. Attorney General Fired After Tweet About Shooting Protesters

3:08 pm EST February 23rd, 2011 | News | 6 Comments

Thank God there are occasional consequences.

The Indiana Attorney General’s office announced Wednesday afternoon its deputy attorney general is no longer employed by the agency, after reviewing political website Mother Jones’   published allegations that he advocated the use of force against protesters in Wisconsin.

According to the online article , Jeff Cox tweeted “Use Live Ammunition” in response to a Mother Jones tweet reporting riot police had been called into the state capital to remove protesters.

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6 Responses to “Indiana Dep. Attorney General Fired After Tweet About Shooting Protesters”

  1. C.S.Strowbridge says:
    February 23, 2011 at 4:16 pm

    For far too long the right has been allowed to use violent imagery without consequences, at least not consequences to them. Too many others have been hurt.

  2. AwkwardSilence says:
    February 23, 2011 at 4:33 pm

    Oh, come on… who cares about history or current events? It was a just a little josh!

    Zing!

  3. Marco21 says:
    February 23, 2011 at 5:41 pm

    Good. Later, asshole.

  4. daveotr says:
    February 23, 2011 at 7:59 pm

    I’d be willing to bet one or more of the following happens:

    1. This tool gets a wingnut welfare job at some Koch-finance “think tank”
    2. We’ll be hearing wall-to-wall wailing from Hannity, Rush, and the rest of the shit spigots bemoaning Cox as a “victim of political correctness”.

  5. NoCuteName says:
    February 23, 2011 at 9:22 pm

    WORDS HAVE CONSEQUENCES!!! It’s about fracking time.

  6. Ol Froth says:
    February 24, 2011 at 9:21 am

    And the irony is that if he had union representation, he’d at least be able to challenge his termination.