A sniper for the Las Vegas SWAT team reads that a police officer has been shot and the assailant arrested, and comments on Facebook that it's "a shame [the assailant] didn't have a few holes in him." The sniper gets removed from the SWAT team for that comment. Judge Berzon, in dissent, thinks that's proper. But Judge Lee's majority opinion says that it's not -- at least on summary judgment -- because it's unclear what the officer's comment means.
Do you think you know what the officer meant?
P.S. - The officer's comment began by saying "Thanks to a Former Action Guy (FAG) and his team we caught that asshole." Judge Lee says in footnote 1: "Moser said that “Former Action Guy (FAG)” is a self-deprecating term coined by a former SWAT colleague who switched to a different unit in Metro. Moser’s use of that derogatory term is not at issue in this case." Other Ninth Circuit judges might not have been so kind.
