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VIDEO: What This Police Officer Says About Obama and the Constitution Will Shock You

August 6, 2014 By Jennifer Burke

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Let’s start off by saying that not all cops are bad. Not all are power hungry. The vast majority do an incredible job every day risking their lives to protect and serve the public. But, when you encounter a police officer who blatantly abuses their power, then there’s more than just a problem. It can create a dangerous situation. Such is the case with this incident in New Jersey. (video below)

On Monday Steve Wronko, a concerned citizen of New Jersey, visited his local police station with concerns about extreme nepotism and animal abuse. The Free Thought Project details the exchange between Wronka and a Helmetta police officer whose words and actions reek of corruption.

Steve Wronko had gone to the Helmetta Police Department with a list of objections about recent violations at the Helmetta Regional Animal Shelter. According to the Community outreach facebook page created to expose the atrocities of the shelter, Reform Helmetta Regional Animal Shelter, there is a long stemming controversy from the Helmetta Mayor, Nancy Martin.
Martin also happens to be the tax collector for the City of Perth. In 2011, Martin made her son, Brandon Metz, the head of the Animal Shelter. She also appointed him to Animal Cruelty Investigator, Borough Laborer, Water Meter Reader, and Certified Recycling Coordinator, according to the facebook page.

When Wronko went to the police department to voice his complaints about the violations of his Constitutional rights by this corrupt, nepotistic system, he was met with even more corruption.

When Wronka said, “I’ve made you objections about what’s going on at the shelter over there….” The officer retorted, “Obama just decimated the freakin’ Constitution, so I don’t give a damn. If he doesn’t follow the Constitution, we don’t have to.”

The exchange between Wronko and the police officer is even more surprising because the officer knew he was being filmed. In fact, at one point, he looked at the individual filming and asked, “Yeah, did you get that.”
Is this what it has come to in America? Authority figures, from police officers to government officials, who hold positions in which they are supposed to serve the public instead blatantly state that they will do whatever they want and could care less about the Constitution? Are we to expect greater lawlessness from numerous agencies who are supposed to uphold the law?

http://www.tpnn.com/2014/08/06/video-what-this-police-officer-says-about-obama-and-the-constitution-will-shock-you/

N.J. cop in Obama rant speaks out and resigns
Sergio Bichao, @sbichao 5:06 p.m. EDT August 7, 2014
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HELMETTA – Richard Recine's 36-year career as a police officer came crashing down this week after he was caught on camera saying police do not have to follow the Constitution because President Barack Obama doesn't either.

On Thursday, Recine — who had retired from the Franklin police force in 2006 and was working part time here as a special police officer — submitted his resignation.

"I don't want to give a black eye to law enforcement," Recine, 59, said Thursday in an exclusive interview with MyCentralJersey.com. "People are saying some really nasty stuff about cops. I don't want all officers painted with the same brush."

Borough Administrator Herbert Massa said the resignation was accepted by Police Director Robert Manney, who had called Recine's comments an "embarrassment."

The video first was reported Wednesday by MyCentralJersey.com and the story quickly went viral. The story was picked up by the Drudge Report and was the top story Thursday morning on the online community news website Reddit. Many readers were upset that Recine's comments were dismissive of civil liberties.

In the video, taken Monday at the borough's Municipal Building, Recine tells resident Steve Wronko that "Obama has decimated the friggin' Constitution, so I don't give a damn," after Wronko insists he has a constitutional right to take pictures inside the building.

But on Thursday, Recine, a registered Democrat who serves on the elected Board of Fire Commissioners of District 2 in Piscataway, said he was being "sarcastic."

"It was just a stupid statement on my part. He got me riled and I said it," he explained. "I don't believe that at all. I'm the most patriotic person in the world. I believe in God, the flag, country, the Constitution."

Recine said he was dispatched to the building because municipal workers were concerned when they saw Wronko taking pictures indoors.

Wronko and his wife have been campaigning for reform of the borough's animal shelter. They said police have asked them to stop taking pictures and videos outside the animal shelter twice before this week's incident.

"I tried to explain to him that since 9/11 you just can't walk into a place and take videos," Recine said Thursday. "All he kept on doing was saying he had civil rights, and the Constitution, and he didn't have to give me information. And I kind of like lost my temper."

Manney said police were right to question Wronko and to ask him to leave the building but said Recine's comments about Obama and the Constitution were inappropriate. Recine said the decision to hand in his resignation was "mutual."

Staff Writer Sergio Bichao: 908-243-6615; sbichao@mycentraljersey.com

http://www.mycentraljersey.com/story...iral/13728599/