A police officer has been placed on administrative leave after writing on Facebook that the Ferguson, Missouri cop who shot dead an unarmed black teenager last month ‘did society a favor’.<\/p>\n
Jason Lentz, a 17-year veteran of the Elgin Police Department in Illinois, is under investigation after colleagues discovered he had written multiple racially-charged Facebook posts. Details of his posts have now been released to the\u00a0Courier-News<\/a>\u00a0following a Freedom of Information request.<\/p>\n His suspension – the fourth in his career – comes after Ferguson cop Darren Wilson gunned down 18-year-old Michael Brown on August 9, sparking clashes between police officers and protesters.<\/p>\n In one online post on his personal Facebook page on August 17, Lentz posted a photo of\u00a0Missouri Highway Patrol Captain Ron Johnson – who is black – with a black man and making an ‘OK’ hand sign.<\/p>\n ‘He is also in the Chicago Tribune hugging protesters. Just awesome\u2026 appears to be the enemy within,’ Lentz wrote.<\/p>\n The post about Brown was made on August 15 above a video he shared entitled: ‘Police Released surveillance footage allegedly showing Michael Brown stealing cigars befor[e].’<\/p>\n