Police chief who admitted creating anonymous Twitter account to mock critic resigns
A police car blocks the road outside of the Flynn Center for the Performing Arts where an event was being hosted on January 7, 2016 in Burlington, Vermont.The chief of police of Vermont's largest city resigned Monday after admitting that he had created a Twitter account to"troll" a self-described left-wing political activist. Just hours later, the city's deputy also admitted to using a fake account on Facebook.
Wright was originally designated to step up as police chief until the mayor became aware of her"Lori Spicer" account. Now, Deputy Chief Jon Murad, who has said he does not post anonymously to social media, is the acting police chief for the city of Burlington. reported, and sent about 10 messages to Winkleman. He has since deleted the account, but Winkleman shared screenshots of them with the paper.that confirmed that he had known about del Pozo's connection to the account since July 28—after del Pozo told him himself.
"Upon his return to work, I formally reprimanded the Chief and warned him that any repeat of the problematic conduct would result in his immediate termination," the mayor wrote.
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