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City manager getting the boot after posting inflammatory comments about LASD deputies getting shot

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Jose Ometeotl (Facebook)

September 17, 2020
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LYNNWOOD, Calif. — The city manager of a Lynnwood, a suburb of Los Angeles, was placed on paid administrative leave Tuesday after his classless social media post on the ambush shooting of two sheriffs’ deputies over the weekend was greeted disdain.

Jose Ometeotl was put on leave pending an internal investigation, Lynwood City Councilman Salvador Alatorre told Fox News following the council’s closed session meeting Tuesday night. Alatorre put forth the motion to discipline or dismiss Ometeotl following his personal Instagram post that read “chickens come home to roost” after two deputies were shot multiple times while sitting in their patrol unit Saturday in the nearby city of Compton.

Compton ambush
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As a result, Michelle Ramirez, the city’s director of community development, will step in as acting city manager.

Alatorre told Fox News in a text message that the move against Ometeotl was “Protocal” [sic] and that “he is gone, will not represent Lynwood anymore.”

“It’s a legal process to protect the city,” Alatorre added.

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He previously said the city manager went beyond his authority with his remarks, even though it was posted to his private account.

“He represents the city of Lynwood 24/7,” Alatorre said Monday. “He cannot make statements while he’s employed by our city, especially when he jeopardizes public safety.”

The council received 78 written comments regarding the post, with only three defending Ometeotl. However, nearly all of the public speakers who commented during Tuesday’s virtual meeting showed support for him. Some said that much of the criticism about his social media post came from people who live outside the city.

 


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