From the Mouths of Thugs: ‘Obama has decimated the friggin’ constitution…if he doesn’t follow the Constitution we don’t have to.’

Role models are so important, don’t you think?
They model behavior for us so that we know how to conduct ourselves
on our twisty, winding path through life. So when Special Police
Officer Richard Recine of the Borough of Helmetta, New Jersey, see
President Obama decimate the friggin’ constitution, he knows it’s
time to do some decimating of his own.

Because al Qaeda.

Writes Sergio Bichao of the
Home News Tribune:

A New Jersey police officer was caught on camera telling a
resident that police don’t have to follow the Constitution because
President Obama doesn’t, either.

Special Police Officer Richard Recine, of the Borough of
Helmetta Police Department, is now the subject of an internal
affairs investigation after the video was posted online and was
seen by Police Director Robert Manney, who called the comments an
“embarrassment.”

In the video, taken Monday at the borough municipal building,
resident Steve Wronko gets into a verbal confrontation with Recine,
who was called to the building because Wronko was seen taking
pictures inside.

After Wronko insists he has a constitutional right to record in
a public place, Recine responds.

“Obama has decimated the friggin’ constitution, so I don’t give
a damn,” said Recine, who is a retired Franklin, N.J., police
officer. “Because if he doesn’t follow the Constitution we don’t
have to.”

Wronko was in the municipal building as part of his ongoing
efforts to raise concerns about the local animal shelter. What he
got instead was a fascinating lesson in constitutional law from
Recine.

Robert A Manney,
Helmetta’s police director, is understandly upset about the
whole thing. Ignoring constitutional niceties is one thing; openly
expressing institutional contempt for the Constitution probably
pulls the veil back a bit too far.

Recine, who invokes “all the terrorism” as grounds for
confronting Wronko, works part-time while collecting a $79,000
annual pension for an earlier police gig.
Double-dipping is a time-honored
tradition in the state.

The videorecording
was made by a 13-year-old, by the way, cuz the kids need role
models, too. The fun starts at about the 2:17 mark.

H/T: Jim Dunning