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Fire chief: Remove ‘lewd and horrible’ posts about firefighter
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Fox News
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Date: May 02, 2016 04:28PM
http://www.firechief.com/2016/05/02/fire-chief-remove-lewd-and-horrible-posts-about-firefighter/
Fairfax County Fire Chief Richard Bowers said a website should shut down after firefighter-paramedic Nicole Mittendorff died by suicide following cyber-bullying.
NY Daily News reported that Chief Bowers said the website, Fairfax Underground, should remove the "lewd and horrible" remarks made about Mittendorff. Mittendorff was found dead in Shenandoah National Park. Police found a suicide note in her car.
News later surfaced about multiple anonymous posters who made derogatory remarks about the 31-year-old before her death. Even after her body was found, users continued to demean her on the site.
Virginia State Police said they don't believe the comments led directly to her death, according to the report. However, Chief Bowers announced his team was investigating the statements during a press conference on Friday. He said the department did not know about the harassment and that he's looking into the hateful remarks, some of which appeared to come from colleagues.
"The anomaly right here right now is this blog and social media is out of control, people have no common sense and they no sense of responsibility when you have anonymous posts and people can say anything," Chief Bowers said. "It's just wrong; it's terrible."
Fairfax Underground curator Carey Weidemann called Chief Bowers' statements a "deflection of blame." Weidemann said he previously removed comments due to complaints. He also received a court order last year to take down remarks about a different female firefighter.
Chief Bowers said the department is starting a suicide education and prevention program and creating a task force to address harassment and discrimination.
Fairfax County Fire Chief Richard Bowers said a website should shut down after firefighter-paramedic Nicole Mittendorff died by suicide following cyber-bullying.
NY Daily News reported that Chief Bowers said the website, Fairfax Underground, should remove the "lewd and horrible" remarks made about Mittendorff. Mittendorff was found dead in Shenandoah National Park. Police found a suicide note in her car.
News later surfaced about multiple anonymous posters who made derogatory remarks about the 31-year-old before her death. Even after her body was found, users continued to demean her on the site.
Virginia State Police said they don't believe the comments led directly to her death, according to the report. However, Chief Bowers announced his team was investigating the statements during a press conference on Friday. He said the department did not know about the harassment and that he's looking into the hateful remarks, some of which appeared to come from colleagues.
"The anomaly right here right now is this blog and social media is out of control, people have no common sense and they no sense of responsibility when you have anonymous posts and people can say anything," Chief Bowers said. "It's just wrong; it's terrible."
Fairfax Underground curator Carey Weidemann called Chief Bowers' statements a "deflection of blame." Weidemann said he previously removed comments due to complaints. He also received a court order last year to take down remarks about a different female firefighter.
Chief Bowers said the department is starting a suicide education and prevention program and creating a task force to address harassment and discrimination.
Re: Fire chief: Remove ‘lewd and horrible’ posts about firefighter
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Ying Ko
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Date: May 02, 2016 05:17PM
Thanks for making thread after thread after thread about the same thing. Got anything new, Mcgruff?
Re: Fire chief: Remove ‘lewd and horrible’ posts about firefighter
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9DED4
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Date: May 02, 2016 06:41PM
there was no push to prevent the fire dept article from it's ramblings until AFTER the fact, and the VA state police called it "not a fact they will allow to be filed at the police station"
this is not a case of better late than never, chief
this is not a case of better late than never, chief
Re: Fire chief: Remove ‘lewd and horrible’ posts about firefighter
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uwxvw
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Date: May 02, 2016 06:44PM
free speech is important - an agenda to come along after the fact to prevent free speech on one of few "forums" that excercise little moderating: can be see as a government with an intent of a monologue media