{"id":407,"date":"2004-12-06T21:35:14","date_gmt":"2004-12-07T03:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=407"},"modified":"2004-12-06T21:35:50","modified_gmt":"2004-12-07T03:35:50","slug":"supreme-court-no-protection-for-officers-sex-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/?p=407","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court: No Protection For Officer&#8217;s Sex Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My shock at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whiotv.com\/news\/3974427\/detail.html\">this<\/a> is that the damned thing ever reached the highest echelon of our legal system.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Supreme Court is backing a decision to fire a San Diego police officer who sold sexually explicit videotapes of himself, in and out of uniform.<\/p>\n<p>The unanimous opinion reversed an appeals court ruling in favor of the officer, who claimed his free speech rights had been violated.<\/p>\n<p> The officer was fired three years ago after a supervisor discovered the sex videos on eBay. The tapes showed the uniformed officer stripping off his clothes and performing a sex act.<\/p>\n<p>The supervisor charged the officer with violating department policies on unbecoming conduct and ordered a halt to the video sales.<\/p>\n<p>The officer complied but was fired after police officials found that his Internet profile on eBay still mentioned the striptease videos.<\/p>\n<p>The officer argued that the sex videos were made while he was off-duty and that they made no mention of his employment.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Not even the libertarian side of me can find any support for this jackhole.  As a silver lining for this idiot, he can now get back into the home entertainment business.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My shock at this is that the damned thing ever reached the highest echelon of our legal system. The Supreme Court is backing a decision to fire a San Diego police officer who sold sexually explicit videotapes of himself, in and out of uniform. The unanimous opinion reversed an appeals court ruling in favor of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-wtf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}