Michael Fultz's ex-girlfriend gave investigators images of the deputy placing a gun in her mouth and pointing it at the back of her head while they had consensual sex,
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Deputy of the Year resigns over Nazi salute same week police told to guard synagogues for Jewish holidays.
As it ran on the front
Let's just read the calendar out loud. High Holy Days start next month, and law enforcement groups are telling synagogues and Jewish schools across the country to expect, and plan for, more patrol cars this year, not fewer. That's not a headline anybody wanted to write twice in one lifetime, but here we are.
Same stretch of news cycle, a sheriff's deputy who was named Deputy of the Year — an actual title, an actual plaque, presumably a ceremony with a sheet cake — resigns after it comes out that he used the department's own surveillance cameras to track an ex-girlfriend, used a slur that shouldn't need footnoting, and threw a Nazi salute. The man they held up as the example.…
…(cont) And in the same week, Marjorie Taylor Greene, who has spent years as a reliable weathervane for where the party's center of gravity sits, looks at Laura Loomer's rhetoric and says the quiet part in public: this is Trump's new MAGA and Republican Party now. Not 'a fringe element,' not 'isolated online personalities.' The new normal, according to someone who has never been shy about riding the old one.
You can defend any one of these three things in isolation. A bad cop gets fired, institutions self-correct, fine. A pundit says something ugly online, ignore it. One congresswoman is annoyed at another influencer, internal party drama, who cares. But you don't get to defend all three at once and call it a coincidence, because the thing connecting them isn't ideology, it's permission — who gets to say what, on camera, in uniform, in Congress, without it costing them anything.
The people who actually have to recalculate their morning commute around this are the ones sending their kids to religious school on a Tuesday. They don't get a talking point. They get a squad car in the parking lot, and a reasonable question about why that squad car is more necessary this year than last, and an answer nobody in a position of power seems eager to give them straight.
“One week you need extra squad cars outside the synagogue for the holidays, the same week a cop with a 'deputy of the year' plaque walks off the job over a Nazi salute and a slur caught on his own surveillance gear. That is not a coincidence of scheduling, that's the temperature of the room right now. Even people inside the party are saying, on the record, that the rhetoric moved.”
“One bad apple doesn't reflect on law enforcement broadly, and Congresswoman Greene's comments were about a personality clash, not a party-wide trend — though I'll grant the phrase 'Trump's new MAGA and Republican Party' isn't the most reassuring thing to hear from inside the tent, but context matters, always context.”
The receipts
Antisemitic incidents in 2025: 6,274 - the third-highest year since tracking began in 1979, with assaults at a record high ADL, 2025 Audit of Antisemitic Incidents
More police patrols urged for Jewish schools, synagogues across US as High Holy Days begin Sept. 11“Every Jewish child deserves access to a safe place to learn, and every individual deserves to worship in peace."
Former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) on Sunday slammed right-wing influencer Laura Loomer's remarks posted on social media, condemning them as President Trump's "new MAGA and Republican Party." Greene reacted to an inflammatory post…
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