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'He has made me feel unsafe': Ohio sheriff's Kamala Harris Facebook post draws complaints

www.usatoday.com 'He has made me feel unsafe': Ohio sheriff's Kamala Harris Facebook post draws complaints

Ohio residents have lodged complaints to state Attorney General Dave Yost over Portage County Sheriff Bruce Zuchowski's Facebook post about Kamala Harris signs.

The letters obtained by the Akron Beacon Journal, part of the USA TODAY Network, show people's concern over the tone of the Facebook post by Portage County Sheriff Bruce Zuchowski

At least 59 Ohio residents have complained to the state's attorney general over posts made by an Ohio sheriff suggesting that people should keep track of homeowners who have signs supporting Democrat Kamala Harris for president.

Bruce Zuchowski, the sheriff for Portage County just southeast of Cleveland, posted the suggestion to his social media account on Sept. 13, when he talked about Harris’ campaign and border policies.

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Some people said they were angry, accusing Zuchowski of voter intimidation and racism. Others, including people who live in Portage County, said the sheriff’s post made them afraid.

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Hes a republican who called for people he doesn't like to be targeted in a position of extreme local power.

He should be immediately fired, and an interim sheriff put in place until the election.
- Hes a ~~republican~~ FUCKING NAZI
  
  FTFY
  
  It would help everyone a lot more if you stopped getting those two things confused
  
  It would help if you didn't exaggerate. He has invaded no country and installed no gas chambers. He is a racist fascist at best. That word shouldn't be thrown around so easily.
  
  There's literally a Lemmy user trying to mark all Trump supporters on a map on a website. Nazi I assume?
  
  When you reach, stretch, and attempt to classify everyone who does awful things or that you disagree with politically a "nazi," you make the word mean less, and you make people care about the term less.
  
  People like me, right now. Carry on, this thread is boring.
  
  Edit: this is handy, it's like a self-selecting block list. Thanks yall!
- In the US, sheriffs are elected officials, i.e. they can't be fired.
  
  Can they not be recalled?
He has since doubled-down on that bullshit by stating:

With elections, there are consequences. That being said…I believe that those who vote for individuals with liberal policies have to accept responsibility for their actions!

In other words, he knows that he's instigating riots and genocide, and he's not going to apologize for it.
- Responsibility for actions? Coming from Republicans?! Headed by the biggest baby no responsibility taking motherfucker Trump. Thousands of covid dead and he says, "it is what it is." It's times like this you can pop on some Bob Marley and be comforted by his words. Fuck you sheriff!
  
  Nah, see, it's just typical victim blaming. He's pretty much doing the whole "why do you make me hurt you" gaslighting bullshit you get from all abusers.
  
  And who also said "you'll be ok" to the Hurricane Helene survivors. Fucks sake
- Sounds like an assertion of a threat. He means to harm people who vote for Harris
Illegal human 'Locust'

WTF... I really want to live in a world where people in power are at least afraid to say things like that publicly.
What he originally wrote:

"When people ask me…What's gonna happen if the Flip - Flopping, Laughing Hyena Wins?? I say…write down all the addresses of the people who had her signs in their yards," Zuchowski wrote in the Facebook post. "Sooo…when the Illegal human "Locust" (which she supports!) Need places to live…We'll already have the addresses of their New families…who supported their arrival!"
Fascists should be identified and added to the map so we can avoid them for safety. https://magatmap.com

Before you reply with whataboutism/slippery slope/some other non-aggression pact garbage, please keep it to yourself.
- My only issue is that it includes random nobodies. It should just be for government officials, cops and billionaires.
  
  Those random nobodies can become a somebody with power one day. So list them all.
- Thank you for this. I see we have a lot to add where I am.
  
  its never too late to start helping
- Fascists and religious zealots should be rounded up and put on special land that's been reserved just for them. I'm sure there's some place out in the desert we could stick them.
God help us all if the Republicans come in to power...and that's coming from northh of your border :(
- Guy, fellow Canadian here. When the Confederacy fell apart they all ran away to us. And we fucking took them, ffs. Jefferson Davis lived out his treacherous life in Toronto. There are redneck, Confederate flag waving racists throughout the Canadian borders. I've even seen pro Trump flags up here in Canada. We've been infected by these fucks for a long time
  
  That was the original sin that destroyed America.
  
  We should have treated them like Germany, they even hung many of the surviving nazis after the war.
  
  Instead we kept them out of power for a decade than turned our backs and let them slime right back in.
  
  Can confirm. I've seen Trump and even fucking Confederate flags on people's houses. Always in the shittiest parts of town too. Imagine supporting a bunch of traitor losers from a country you're not even from, who you share no heritage with.
- At least y’all recognized the proud boys.
  
  At least y’all recognized the proud boys.
  
  Eventually...
I would say put some Kamala Walz signs in his yard to fuck with him, but he seems like the kind of guy to shoot you for using the end of his driveway to make a 3 point turn so...
- Get some maga signs made up that wash off in the rain and reveal Kamala signs underneath.
  
  Get some maga signs made up that wash off in the rain and reveal Kamala signs underneath.
  
  Like a clown's greasepaint disappearing in the rain, revealing the middle-aged drunk beneath.
Doxx all of the cops.

It is literally that simple. Them being vulnerable at their homes should be required for that job.

Everyone knew where the heroes of the Iliad lived. If they want to be tough guy heroes let us know where you live, officer.

Everybody knew where the sheriff and deputies lived in Mayberry.
- Vulnerable to what? Mob justice?
  
  People need to be held accountable but violence isn’t the answer.
  
  Contrary to popular belief, violence actually is the solution in some situations.
  
  Perhaps not this one and there could be an interesting discussion around that, but I fucking hate the idea that violence is never a solution when it absolutely is sometimes.
  
  What is? The legal system protects them
- You mean the fictional heroes of the Illiad? You know it's fiction, right?
  
  This is a stupid idea. Hate the game, not the players. Institutional change is needed, instead of answering violence with more violence.
  
  Sadly, sometimes violence is necessary
Maybe it's high time to start fucking people like this up. Like, really fuck them up.
- It would not be seen as a consequence.
  
  Entitlement is such a miraculous prism for viewing the world.
  
  Is there going to be some opportunity for a round table discussion where they rate the consequences out of 5 stars? A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.
They want good guys with guns? This is how you get liberal gun owners :/
- We bought guns in 2016. Get with the program.
'It was just a joke, people. Jeesh.'
- Boy, u really do need that /s around here.
- Ha ha. Only serious.
That guys face makes me feel unsafe
- Clearly the solution to the problems we're facing as a society is judging everyone by outward appearances. /s
  
  That hairstyle and beard are a choice he makes everyday. He has nobody to blame but himself.

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