A Cambridge Police superintendent apologized to Rep. Joe Kennedy III after he posted a profane tweet in regards to the Senate candidate from the division’s official account on Sunday.
Although the vulgar tweet was rapidly deleted, a screenshot was saved. “One other liberal f—ing jerk who simply occurs to be higher than the clown he’s working towards. Unhappy for us,” the tweet learn.
The Cambridge Police superintendent, Jack Albert, was responding to Kennedy’s feedback throughout a televised look on WCVB-TV Boston, the place he criticized Trump administration’s sluggish response to the coronavirus outbreak–saying the distribution of PPE across the nation was “embarrassing.”
Albert admitted on Monday he wrote the offensive tweet and “inadvertently” despatched it out.
“I needed to take full possession and duty for my regrettable actions following inappropriate political commentary I inadvertently printed,” Albert stated in a press release launched by the Cambridge Police Division.
He “apologized” to Kennedy and “the good women and men of the Cambridge Police Division.”
He added, that his “poor lapse in judgment” coming throughout a pandemic “is one thing that I'll perpetually carry with me.”
The division additionally apologized to Kennedy, 39, and referred to as the incident “regrettable,” in a tweet. It additionally famous the officer’s actions did “not replicate the professionalism” of the division.
“Acceptable motion” will likely be taken in response to the incident, the division tweeted, although it didn't specify what motion this would possibly embody.
Kennedy is working towards incumbent Sen. Edward Markey, 73, within the Democratic major for a US Senate seat in Massachusetts.
Joe Kennedy is the grandson of Robert F. Kennedy.
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