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Cop Quits After Obama Comments

A Jacksonville police officer has quit after admitting he told colleagues that he would volunteer to assassinate President Barack Obama. Sam Koivisto told the Florida Times-Union (http://bit.ly/10zfc6q) on Wednesday that his comments had been blown out of proportion and that he'd planned to retire in five months anyway. The 57-year-old retired earlier this month while facing an internal investigation into his comments to other officers after the election. He told them that if an...Full Story
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