From Asheville’s Citizen-Times:
City police have put a department employee under investigation following accusations she called Occupy Asheville protesters “nasty” in a Facebook post and complained they left “stinky belongings” on a sidewalk.
Police acknowledgment of the investigation Monday continued a string of developments tied to an Occupy Asheville demonstration last week.
An attorney with the movement was released after two days in jail on contempt-of-court charges filed when she demanded more information about weekend arrests.
Police also continued to use video from the demonstration at Pack Square Park to arrest Occupy protesters on trespassing charges.
The internal police investigation will focus on Lynn Fraser, a member of the department’s forensics team who helped shoot video of Occupy Asheville activities, police Lt. Wally Welch said.
In the post identified by police as being from Fraser, she writes that she is “glad to be off work and not dealing with (profanity) that want to preach their ‘Constitutional rights’ to me, then in the same breath tell me that videotaping them in a PUBLIC park (which none of them worked and contributed tax money to pay for) is an invasion of privacy.
“Hey (profanity), you gave up expectation of privacy when you flopped all your stinky belongings out on the sidewalk beside the Federal building. And by the way, stop pooping in public. You’re just nasty.”
Welch said he did not know how police would handle the issue.
“It was off-duty, and it was something on her personal Facebook, but it will be reviewed internally,” he said.
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