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TexasTowelie

(116,813 posts) Wed Apr 28, 2021, 04:13 AM Apr 2021

Stillwater prison employee on leave after video posted of him and wife yelling at protesters

A sergeant at the Minnesota Correctional Facility-Stillwater has been placed on “investigatory” leave after he was captured on video Sunday with a woman who was yelling racial slurs at protesters.

The confrontation occurred Sunday afternoon in the 500 block of Stillwater Avenue West during a protest and prayer service that started outside Washington County Attorney Pete Orput’s house in Stillwater.

Link to tweet

Protesters have been gathering in Stillwater near Orput’s house and calling on him to bring murder charges against Kim Potter, the ex-Brooklyn Center police officer accused of killing Daunte Wright. Potter has been charged with second-degree manslaughter.

In the video, the wife of Sgt. Paul Gorder can be heard calling protesters the N-word. Gorder, who is 55 and has worked at the Minnesota Department of Corrections for 26 years, also can be seen wearing a DOC T-shirt and can be heard yelling and swearing at the protesters.

Read more: https://www.twincities.com/2021/04/26/doc-employee-on-leave-after-video-of-woman-yelling-racial-slur-at-protesters-in-stillwater-is-posted-on-social-media/

The article states that the sergeant and his wife appear to be "heavily intoxicated."

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Stillwater prison employee on leave after video posted of him and wife yelling at protesters (Original Post) TexasTowelie Apr 2021 OP

Hopefully he will be fired Dreampuff Apr 2021 #1

And the American flag shorts -- I hate how these fuckers wrap themselves and everything else progree Apr 2021 #2

Back in the day (during the anti-war protests of the '60s) TheRickles Apr 2021 #4

I don't think it was ever illegal dflprincess Apr 2021 #5

Yes, I was thinking that when he sits down, he sits on the American flag, which is about progree Apr 2021 #6

Ashamed that I live in the same town as her Mister Ed Apr 2021 #3

Dreampuff

(778 posts)

1. Hopefully he will be fired

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Wed Apr 28, 2021, 05:20 AM

Apr 2021

And have his benefits, like pension, removed. This guy sounds like my neighbor. He likes to intimidate and use the n word while he is yelling and screaming at a couple who are also our neighbors.

progree

(11,463 posts)

2. And the American flag shorts -- I hate how these fuckers wrap themselves and everything else

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Wed Apr 28, 2021, 06:04 AM

Apr 2021

in the flag like they are the true patriots and represent the true America. And everyone who doesn't is a rootless cosmopolitan or a "multi-cultural type" or, well, a f'ing N-blanker.

TheRickles

(2,416 posts)

4. Back in the day (during the anti-war protests of the '60s)

Reply to progree (Reply #2)

Wed Apr 28, 2021, 07:10 AM

Apr 2021

The mainstream said it was the ultimate sign of disrespect to wear even a flag patch on your pants. It might even have been illegal - I don't remember. Apparently times have changed and it's now a badge of honor.

dflprincess

(28,475 posts)

5. I don't think it was ever illegal

Reply to TheRickles (Reply #4)

Wed Apr 28, 2021, 08:24 PM

Apr 2021

but I believe the flag etiquette rules have always held that making clothing out of the flag was disrespectful & people used to pay attention to that.

progree

(11,463 posts)

6. Yes, I was thinking that when he sits down, he sits on the American flag, which is about

Reply to TheRickles (Reply #4)

Wed Apr 28, 2021, 08:35 PM

Apr 2021

as disrespectful as one can get. Or has a bowel or bladder accident, not unlikely at his age and with the amount he apparently drinks

Mister Ed

(6,352 posts)

3. Ashamed that I live in the same town as her

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Wed Apr 28, 2021, 06:29 AM

Apr 2021

Glad to see my local police calming a situation and not escalating it.

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