Labor & Employment Law

?Live Ammunition? Comments by Indiana Deputy AG Spark Probe

By Mike Hall

The Indiana deputy attorney general who reportedly tweeted that ?live ammunition? and ?deadly force? should be used to disperse protesters in Madison, Wis., demonstrating against Gov. Scott Walker?s (R) move to eliminate public service workers? right to bargain for middle-class jobs is under investigation.

WRTV 6News in Indianapolis reports that Deputy Attorney General Jeff Cox faces an internal investigation. Cox also made several other inflammatory statements via twitter, according to a Mother Jones reporter.

A statement from the Attorney General?s office today said it:

does not condone the inflammatory statements asserted in the ‘Mother Jones’ article and we do not condone any comments that would threaten or imply violence or intimidation toward anyone.

An immediate review of this personnel matter is now under way to determine whether the assertions made in the Mother Jones article about an employee are accurate. When that review is complete, appropriate personnel action will be taken.

Full post as published by AFL-CIO NOW BLOG on February 23, 2011 (boomark / email).