37 Year Old, Aaron Hodges of Portland, suggested killing a white officer for every black man killed by police. His comment on Facebook quickly circulated online, prompting complaints both online and directly to his employer.
Nordstrom spokeswoman Tara Darrow said the department store chain does not tolerate violence, violent conversation or ‘threats of any kind.’
The Facebook Post follows:
‘Every time an unarmed black man is killed, you kill a decorated white officer, on his doorstep in front of his family.’
Hodges, who is African-American, said Tuesday he’s troubled by the police killings of Michael Brown in Missouri, Eric Garner in New York and Tamir Rice in Ohio, and he made the Facebook comment in an exchange with a friend from high school. Hodges said he sometimes says outrageous things to ‘bring things into scope’ and didn’t literally mean that white officers should be killed.
‘I’m a black Mormon, so there’s no way I could be racist,’ he said. ‘I’m just passionate about black issues because nobody else seems to be.’
