Bullet-Ridden Obama Shirt Sparks Investigation

[k98nights]

By Alyssa Newcomb

Jan 27, 2012 6:35pm

(Image Credit: Handout)

Seven Arizona teenagers used an Obama T-shirt for target practice and posted a picture on Facebook, causing the Secret Service to investigate.

The photo shows the teenagers in the desert holding guns and a bullet-riddled Obama T-shirt. The Secret Service told ABC’s Phoenix affiliate that the teenagers had a right to free speech, but they also had a right to question their behavior.

The Peoria, Ariz., Police Department is also looking into the matter, since one of their own snapped it.

“I don’t think that the shooting of that T-shirt is that big of a deal,” Sgt. Pat Shearer, who took the photo, told ABC 15.

Jay Davies, a spokesman for the Peoria Police Department, told ABCNews.com that his office had become aware of the photo Thursday afternoon after receiving a call from the Secret Service.

“We are doing an administrative review,” he said, but declined to discuss the details of the case.

Davies said Shearer was a 25-veteran of the department.

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2012/01/bullet-ridden-obama-shirt-sparks-investigation/

[Mick373]

I do think it is against federal or state law to kill a T Shirt. Just make sure it is dead, then mount on the wall.

[Ex-wingnut]

I don't see anything wrong with shooting the shirt but you mean to tell me that there was nothing else in the Arizona desert that they could have shot? If it was a SpongeBob shirt, this wouldn't be in the news. But come on, choosing a shirt with the President on it and posting it on the internet wasn't a smart thing to do.

[desimo]

I think the real investigation is why someone so stupid as to take and then post a picture of it are allowed to be around firearms.

[rope]

I don't see anything wrong with shooting the shirt but you mean to tell me that there was nothing else in the Arizona desert that they could have shot? If it was a SpongeBob shirt, this wouldn't be in the news. But come on, choosing a shirt with the President on it and posting it on the internet wasn't a smart thing to do.

I don't believe this is about bored teenagers that just want something to do....something to 'kill". The smartest way to do it? Probably not. Their message is clear, and want to be heard. Got our attention didn't it? They have accomplished more in that picture than 100 debates by slick political, professional BS'ers or a billion empty promises by a president that promised to force his kind of change on us. IMO one of the messages is they want a future and are gutsy enough to do something about it. Desparate times are here and only going to get worse.......not looking good in many ways for the young or old........

[desimo]

This again reminds me of the media double standard. During the last election, Palin was hung in effigy and it was clear that it was Palin and nothing happened. But some college students hung a what 'looked like' Obama in effigy and they were in the mainstream media with a national investigation.

[thegente]

Same thing as throwing darts at a picture of Obama...big deal.

[aliciadogz]

I rip up picture a picture of obama the other day.Does that mean I get arrested? Oh come and get me!!!

[mogirl463]

I could see this big investigation if they had posted something as serious as plans for his assassination on facebook....but come on now....the Secret Service got involved??? I hate the thought of how much that little investigation cost the American tax payers....Don't they have anything better to do with their time.....seriously????

GOOOOO RV!!!!!!

[usndiver]

Things much worse than this were done and said about President Bush. Oh how I love the double standards of the media.

[RodandStaff]

Things much worse than this were done and said about President Bush. Oh how I love the double standards of the media.

Yup... I knew someone who had a "kill Bush" magnet on their fridge!

[rapidrex]

Big deal. For a while there I was thinking he was wearing it. Fat chance.

[krisdutton]

Shoot an Obama t-shirt or burn the American Flag? Hmmmmm...