Fox Lake Police Lieutenant Charles Joseph Gliniewicz stole thousands of dollars from a youth fund, and when investigators started getting close, he faked his own death<\/strike> staged his suicide to make it look like it was a cop killed in the line of duty.<\/p>\n
As my son is wont to say, what the f%$#ing f%$#?<\/p>\n There aren\u2019t many stories that articulate how absurd and ridiculous America\u2019s relationship with race is better than this one. It is layers on layers on layers on layers on layers of ridiculous, dry rubbed with \u201cWhat the f%$#?<\/i>\u201d marinated in \u201cThis is some bullsh%$<\/i>\u201d and served with a generous helping of \u201cYou need more people<\/i>\u201d on a lightly toasted \u201cNo, seriously. Get the f%$# outta here<\/i>\u201d kaiser roll.<\/span> (%$# mine<\/i>)<\/p>\n Oh, you poor delicate flowers. <\/p>\n It’s almost enough to have me juxtapose a porcine metaphor with law enforcement personnel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Fox Lake Police Lieutenant Charles Joseph Gliniewicz stole thousands of dollars from a youth fund, and when investigators started getting close, he faked his own death staged his suicide to make it look like it was a cop killed in the line of duty. Following a manhunt, they found his body After finding the body, …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[969,1051,1041,982,979],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evil","category-hypocrisy","category-law-enforcement-misconduct","category-stupid","category-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182269"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Following a manhunt, they found his body<\/strike> After finding the body, a manhunt insued, and immediately people blamed Black Lives Matter<\/a>.<\/p>\n
<\/span>Fox Lake Lt. Charles Joseph Gliniewicz was a crooked cop who staged his own death in September. And he wasn\u2019t just run-of-the-mill crooked. He stole tens of thousands of dollars from a youth fund<\/a>; using the cash on vacations, gym memberships, and porn. (Which, admittedly, aren\u2019t the worst things in the world to use your embezzled cash on. You can say many things about Charles Joseph Gliniewicz, but at least he wasn\u2019t boring.)<\/span>
<\/span>Sadly, this \u2014 an officer committing suicide \u2014 is not terribly uncommon or particularly newsworthy. As Shaun King pointed out earlier today<\/a>, \u201ccops are more likely to commit suicide than they are to die in an inner-city gun battle, by a targeted assassination or by a car crash from a high speed chase.\u201d <\/i>But this isn\u2019t about Gliniewicz, who apparently was battling some serious demons. It\u2019s about the reflexive need to blame his death \u2014 back when it was still thought to be a homicide \u2014 on BlackLivesMatter. Which is what many people did. And, this wasn\u2019t just the usual pajama-clad neckbeards on Twitter and Fox News making this claim either. Ron Hosko, current president of the Law Enforcement Legal Defense Fund and a former assistant director of the FBI\u2019s Criminal Investigative Division (yes, that FBI), wrote a piece in USA Toda<\/i>y effectively blaming #BLM for creating the climate that led to Gliniewicz\u2019s murder.<\/a> Which, again, wasn\u2019t a murder.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n