Current Events > Nevada sheriff to library: Support Black Lives Matter? Don't bother calling 911

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DepreceV2
07/29/20 8:37:15 AM
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Wow... So you are abandoning them because they support equality? Is it even legal to purposely withdraw help from the people? I mean... they are paid by tax payer money right? So stupid. Plus, it's like he is encouraging criminals to do whatever they want to that library. That is sick as fuck.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/nevada-sheriff-library-support-black-235957092.html


Douglas County, Nevada Sheriff Dan Coverley has a message for his county's library: Don't bother calling 911 for help anymore and good luck dealing with lewd visitors and disturbances on your own.

His outburst, which he posted in an open letter on the sheriff's office website, follows an aborted plan by the Board of Library Trustees to consider a statement of diversity and inclusion at a public meeting that was canceled today.
The draft statement denounces "all acts of violence, racism and disregard for human rights." It reads in part: "We support #BlackLivesMatter. We resolutely assert and believe that all forms of racism, hatred, inequality and injustice don't belong in our society."

That line prompted Coverley to write a statement of his own.
"Due to your support of Black Lives Matter and the obvious lack of support or trust with the Douglas County Sheriff's Office, please do not feel the need to call 911 for help," Coverley wrote. "I wish you good luck with disturbances and lewd behavior, since those are just some of the recent calls my office has assisted you with in the past."
Coverley condemned both the library and the Black Lives Matter movement.
"Numerous Black Lives Matter protests have resulted in violence, property damage and the closing of local businesses, sometimes permanently," he wrote. "To support this movement is to support violence and to openly ask for it to happen in Douglas County."

While protests across the country have resulted in clashes with police and property damage, many Black Lives Matter demonstrations have remained peaceful. The protests are in response to the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police officers in May. One officer, Derek Chauvin, kneeled on Floyd's neck for more than eight minutes. Chauvin faces charges of second-degree murder.

Library Director Amy Dodson said the diversity statement was meant to send a message to the community that the library welcomes individuals of all backgrounds. It was not meant to be an anti-police statement.
"It simply was meant to state our inclusivity at the library, that we are open and welcoming to everyone and we treat everyone equally," Dodson said.

"I want the sheriffs office to know we do love and support our law enforcement here. We would never want to support a movement to defund the police, so to speak. I think a lot of this has been a big misunderstanding."

The draft diversity statement was set to be considered by the Board of Library Trustees at its meeting Tuesday. That meeting was canceled "due to overwhelming amount of community response," county spokeswoman Melissa Blosser told the RGJ.
It's not the first time the diversity statement has come under attack in the rural county south of Reno. Prior to the canceled meeting, the library had posted the statement to its Facebook page.

But county officials asked the library to remove the statement, saying it violated a policy on using government websites to promote a political agenda.

Federal agency: Supporting 'Black Lives Matter' isn't partisan or political
"We had them take it down," Blosser said. "We cannot use public owned media to propagate a political agenda."
Blosser said that despite Coverley's warning to the library not to call 911, sheriff's deputies will continue to respond to the library.

"Sheriff Coverley would also like to take this opportunity to clarify that the Douglas County Sheriffs Office will continue to respond to all 911 calls, including those at the Library," Blosser said in a written press release.

In a written statement, Coverley said his open letter was "to provide public comment about their proposed diversity statement and to further provide open commentary about how this could affect our local law enforcement profession."

Coverley did not immediately respond to a request for comment from the Reno Gazette Journal.

Coverley is in the middle of his first term as sheriff. According to his bio, Coverley grew up in Douglas County. He has worked for the sheriff's office since 1997, rising to the rank of sergeant prior to his election in 2018.

Dodson, who spent Tuesday morning greeting library patrons at the front door and handing out masks to those who needed them, said she hopes to have a conversation with Coverley soon.

"I'd just like to open a discussion with him and maybe clear the air," Dodson said. "We love our sheriffs office. We love our first responders."


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Guns_of_Verdun
07/29/20 8:38:59 AM
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lol that's literally an extortion racket

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DrizztLink
07/29/20 8:39:52 AM
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I'll be sure to peruse that library.

I've been meaning to study the correlation between cops and micropenises.

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DeadBankerDream
07/29/20 8:41:00 AM
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Surely he can be executed for treason, right?
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KiwiTerraRizing
07/29/20 8:41:14 AM
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shockthemonkey posted...
Hard to tell whos wrong in this situation: the library who doesnt hate black people or the police who dont want to do their job if someone uses their first amendment rights.

Or the library who isnt allowed to use government services to promote political messages vs the Sheriff who apparently is allowed to do that.

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CommonJoe
07/29/20 8:44:03 AM
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Police are not obligated to do anything.

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Slayer_22
07/29/20 8:45:29 AM
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Yeah, I don't understand. If they had said 'fuck the police' or something(which, admittedly, some people have used BLM as a soapbox for), then I could get it. But, even if I don't support BLM, I don't understand why this is alright to think. Just because they support a movement doesn't mean they support the actions of the worst of the worst of the movement.
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Slayer_22
07/29/20 8:45:48 AM
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CommonJoe posted...
Police are not obligated to do anything.

Pretty sure they are, it's their job. Lol.
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Guide
07/29/20 8:46:13 AM
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This is illegal, right?

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tm315
07/29/20 8:46:17 AM
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We only protect and serve some people
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Thatuser
07/29/20 8:46:25 AM
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Good. Fuck you communist scum.
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iPhone_7
07/29/20 8:47:40 AM
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CommonJoe posted...
Police are not obligated to do anything.
The f***

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treewojima
07/29/20 8:57:45 AM
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Slayer_22 posted...
CommonJoe posted...
Police are not obligated to do anything.

Pretty sure they are, it's their job. Lol.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_v._District_of_Columbia
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Guide
07/29/20 8:58:22 AM
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Ah, I've read about that. They... kinda... don't have to do their job?

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Slayer_22
07/29/20 8:59:12 AM
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treewojima posted...


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_v._District_of_Columbia

Oh. Well, that's on them I guess lol.
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St0rmFury
07/29/20 9:01:19 AM
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Guide posted...
Ah, I've read about that. They... kinda... don't have to do their job?

What I understand from that case is the police are beholden to the state and not individual citizens.
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The_homelander
07/29/20 9:04:58 AM
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Think of the bigger implications:

if you think that the lives of blacks people matter the police wont protect you.

so why fund the police with taxes?
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KiwiTerraRizing
07/29/20 9:13:14 AM
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CommonJoe posted...
Police are not obligated to do anything.

100% correct, in a legal sense they dont owe a duty to individual citizens. So if a cop sees you being beaten up he doesnt have to stop it.

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Southernfatman
07/29/20 9:27:32 AM
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Guns_of_Verdun posted...
lol that's literally an extortion racket

This. They're literally gangs.

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FarFromFields
07/29/20 9:34:05 AM
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"Protect and serve"

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FursonaNonGrata
07/29/20 9:36:17 AM
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Guns_of_Verdun posted...
lol that's literally an extortion racket

That's what the institution of "law enforcement" is in its entirety. It's a revenue collection service for the state.

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AlisLandale
07/29/20 9:37:04 AM
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KiwiTerraRizing posted...
Or the library who isnt allowed to use government services to promote political messages vs the Sheriff who apparently is allowed to do that.

the political message of dont kill Blake people

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Thompson
07/29/20 9:38:03 AM
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FarFromFields posted...
"Protect and serve"
But whom?

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inloveanddeath0
07/29/20 9:40:17 AM
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AlisLandale posted...
the political message of dont kill Blake people
You can't kill blake LIVELY!

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AlisLandale
07/29/20 9:41:45 AM
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inloveanddeath0 posted...
You can't kill blake LIVELY!

lmao

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creativerealms
07/29/20 9:45:25 AM
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CommonJoe posted...
Police are not obligated to do anything.
But if they refuse to do their job they should lose their job.

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DrizztLink
07/29/20 9:55:23 AM
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creativerealms posted...
But if they refuse to do their job they should lose their job.
They don't even lose their jobs for straight-up murdering people.

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RchHomieQuanChi
07/29/20 9:56:13 AM
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Sounds like a bunch of snowflakes to me

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kyujo
07/29/20 9:59:37 AM
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treewojima posted...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_v._District_of_Columbia
Terrible
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maksim_Gelman_stabbing_spree#Lozito_v._New_York_City
This one came more immediately to mind for me. Dude could have died and basically did their job for them since they were apparently looking for this known killer and ignored him when he was right next to them

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Funkydog
07/29/20 10:01:03 AM
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DepreceV2 posted...
Is it even legal to purposely withdraw help from the people?
Police in America were never required to help people to begin with. Simply not part of their duty to do their job and protect people.

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creativerealms
07/29/20 10:06:02 AM
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Funkydog posted...
Police in America were never required to help people to begin with. Simply not part of their duty to do their job and protect people.
Help in many ways is just another word for protect. If that help is protecting them then they have failed in their job by not helping.

The police can't pick and choose who to protect and serve. They protect everyone not just people they share politics with.

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FursonaNonGrata
07/29/20 10:07:31 AM
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creativerealms posted...
The police can't pick and choose who to protect and serve.

But they do

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Funkydog
07/29/20 10:07:42 AM
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creativerealms posted...
Help in many ways is just another word for protect. If that help is protecting them then they have failed in their job by not helping.

The police can't pick and choose who to protect and serve. They protect everyone not just people they share politics with.
In a better country you would be correct. Sadly, America is not that.

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RchHomieQuanChi
07/29/20 10:08:57 AM
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You know, it's really telling that they won't refuse to do their job on behalf of blatant corruption and greed, but they draw the line at supporting black people.

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DepreceV2
07/29/20 10:23:51 AM
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RchHomieQuanChi posted...
You know, it's really telling that they won't refuse to do their job on behalf of blatant corruption and greed, but they draw the line at supporting black people.

Blows my mind. Cop culture at its finest

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TheOrgyPorgy
07/29/20 10:24:19 AM
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Diaper force needs to be abolished

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berlyman101
07/29/20 10:25:34 AM
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what does the library have to gain by pandering to these goons

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St0rmFury
07/29/20 10:32:59 AM
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Thompson posted...
FarFromFields posted...
"Protect and serve"
But whom?

The state.
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ScazarMeltex
07/29/20 10:35:55 AM
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Slayer_22 posted...
Pretty sure they are, it's their job. Lol.
The supreme court disagrees. Actually there are multiple supreme court cases that state the police are under no obligation to prevent crime.

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Tyranthraxus
07/29/20 10:36:30 AM
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Slayer_22 posted...
Pretty sure they are, it's their job. Lol.
Nope. 0 obligations to do anything. Thanks SCOTUS.

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sktgamer_13dude
07/29/20 10:41:29 AM
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creativerealms posted...
The police can't pick and choose who to protect and serve.

Too bad the courts disagree with you.

Its bullshit.
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Poop2
07/29/20 10:42:10 AM
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time to elect a new sheriff
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Ruvan22
07/29/20 10:43:35 AM
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What's DarkPheonix/MarkDeRosa's take on this?
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GhostSweeper
07/29/20 11:29:32 AM
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Finally someone with a backbone.

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Ruvan22
07/29/20 11:31:09 AM
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GhostSweeper posted...
Finally someone with a backbone.

The librarian or the sheriff?
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The_homelander
07/29/20 12:41:32 PM
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KiwiTerraRizing posted...
100% correct, in a legal sense they dont owe a duty to individual citizens. So if a cop sees you being beaten up he doesnt have to stop it.

cool. So why must they exist and why must we fund them through our taxes? What is their function?
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SuperShake666
07/29/20 12:42:10 PM
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Y l K E S

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The_homelander
07/29/20 12:46:04 PM
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Wouldnt it be fairly easy to put this sheriff in an uncomfortable position?

put a bunch of Nazi signs and kkk signs at a property and then call the cops for a welfare check on the property (with the consent of the property owner, of course)

if the cops dont have an issue protecting said property owner despite the kkk/Nazi signs but they withdrew protection from the property with BLM signs then it confirms that the sheriff sympathizes with said ideology. Easy.
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DarkChozoGhost
07/29/20 1:04:50 PM
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DepreceV2 posted...
To support this movement is to support violence
The opposite is true

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