Orange County Sheriff Dept. makes controversial statement about arrest.

After making a drug bust the Orange County Sheriff office put out this statement about the arrest on their Facebook page, “Great job by our Sector 3 COPS Deputies! 7 firearms, 6.2 lbs of cannabis, 2 lbs of MDMA, almost $100k in seized drug money. Yes, you guessed it.. suspect is a convicted felon….”

Social media fans did not respond well, here is one example. Edgar Comellas said “So how does reinforcing the stereotype that every ex-con is a criminal helping with the police/community relations? Might as well call out the race of the suspects. Come on you can do better, remember all the times you knelt down last year and said that “law enforcement and community relations have to change?”

What do you think?

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