MarShawn M. McCarrel II was a vocal activist for Black Lives Matter. He had founded a nonprofit organization, which provided homemade lunches to the homeless. At 23 years old he shot himself in February after writing a Facebook post which read “My demons won today,” he wrote. “I’m sorry.” He died on the front steps of the Ohio Statehouse.
“We have received a lot of negative responses,” Tristina Allen, 21, who knew McCarrel through the Black Lives Matter movement and the Ohio Student Association, told Dayton Daily News in February. “I think it is completely unacceptable for someone who is supposed to protect and serve to have that comment towards someone who is dead.”
Ohio Officer Lee Cyr suspended for calling the suicide of #MarshawnMcCarrel a “happy ending” https://t.co/LpAckz1CNK pic.twitter.com/2IzMO6zj9R
— Shaun King (@ShaunKing) February 12, 2016
Fairborn police officer Lee Cyr wrote “Love a happy ending” on the Ohio Politics Facebook page.
“When we were made aware of a Facebook post that was linked to a Fairborn police officer, an internal affairs complaint was initiated,” Fairborn Police Chief Terry Barlow said to Dayton Daily News. “Posts that may discredit the police department are against policy,” Barlow said. “…We take this seriously. We will ensure the professional standards of the department are upheld.”
Cyr was placed on administrative leave after the Fairborn Police Department were alerted by an internal complaint. He has now been fired.
Sources: Washington Post, Daily Caller, WNCN
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