Rep. Clay “Cajun John Wayne” Higgins, (R-LA) a Trumpian kleptocrat-wannabe in the Joe Arpaio mold, decided to do some self-promotion using an Auschwitz gas chamber as a prop.
Apparently Trumpian free speech rights extend to Poland even for Americans who advocate mass murder and need media backdrops… because US Constitution?
GOPredation is an ethics-free activity, using one genocide to promote others.
Auschwitz Memorial condemns Rep. Clay Higgins' gas chamber video: 'It's not a stage'
In it, the Republican says the killings took only about 20 minutes and show why the US military 'must be invincible.'
Higgins supported President Donald Trump's 2017 executive order to temporarily curtail Muslim immigration until better screening methods are devised. He stated that “The president’s executive order for a short-term restriction on visa entries from seven countries, that are known to foster terrorists, combined with a systematic review of our immigration and vetting procedure, is reasonable.”[22]
On June 4, 2017, Higgins posted a message advocating that "Christendom" should kill all "radicalized Islamic suspects".[23]
The former deputy of St. Landry Parish Sheriff's Office[10] resigned in lieu of being fired for making controversial statements after the Sheriff warned him against using disrespectful and demeaning language toward the public.
The Sheriff ordered him to "Tone down his unprofessional comments on our weekly Crime Stoppers messages"[11], underlining "a growing undertone of insubordination and lack of discipline on Higgins’ part"[12].
The Sheriff also took issue with Higgins's misuse of the St. Landry Parish Sheriff's Office's badge of office for personal profit and gain, citing Higgins's fully uniformed appearance with his marked patrol unit in a commercial for Acadian Total Security as well as its use in the sale of t-shirts and shot glasses from Higgins's personal website.
In an investigative article published in Salon it is revealed that "He also negotiated paid speaking appearances with other police departments. In one email, Higgins discussed his request for a speaker’s fee that included shopping money for his wife and part of the fuel for his friend’s private plane[13].
Clay Higgins had previously worked for the Opelousas Police Department but also resigned under allegations of unprofessional and unlawful conduct. The Opelousas Police Department’s Discipline Review Board found that "Clay Higgins used unnecessary force on a subject during the execution of a warrant and later gave false statements during an internal investigation. Although he later recanted his story and admitted to striking a suspect in handcuffs and later releasing him". Clay Higgins resigned before disciplinary action could be imposed.[14]
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