Pima County, Arizona Deputy Faces Calls for Suspension Amid Horrid Social Media Posts

TUCSON, AZ – Public outrage is brewing over the alleged social media posts of a Pima County Sheriff’s deputy, which consisted of violent threats against President Donald Trump, mocked the assassination of Charlie Kirk, and expressed a number of other alarming positions that call into question whether he’s fit for public service.

In the wake of the September 10th assassination of Kirk, the general public has been keeping a closer eye out for social media posts of an incendiary nature, making light of or outright mocking and celebrating Kirk’s murder, and it appears as though Pima County Deputy Ramon Hernandez has entered into the fold of the aforesaid crusade.

Social media platform X has already seen alleged screenshots of the deputy’s Facebook page, where Facebook user Hernandez shared a post about Kirk captioned with, “Feel bad for his kids, then again, they’re better off,” as well as another post reading, “Death to pedophile rapist Trump.”

In another unsettling post allegedly shared by Deputy Hernandez on Facebook, he invoked the conflict abroad between Israel and Palestine as a means to defame Kirk as a racist while also bizarrely expressing anti-ICE sentiments by alleging the agency is “abducting anyone of color” and asserting, “We are long overdue for a revolution.”

FreedomTalk founder and editor-in-chief Kelly Walker also shared a post on social media pertaining to Deputy Hernandez, emphasizing the deputy’s “public posts call for the death of President Trump, Israel’s PM & urge ‘Revolution,’” linking to the post a detailed file encompassing some of Hernandez’s most unsettling material shared online.

The file attached to Walker’s post, which was aptly dubbed the “Incident Report & Evidence Packet,” has reportedly been sent to the Pima County Sheriff’s Office, Homeland Security, the FBI, and the Arizona Department of Public Safety.

A synopsis of the legal and policy implications outlined in the aforementioned document asserts that Deputy Hernandez’s posts may violate state and federal law, particularly 18 U.S.C. § 871, 875(c) and 18 U.S.C. § 2339 which relate to threats against the president and material support to a terrorist organization on the federal level and ARS § 13-1202 on the state level regarding aggravated threatening or intimidating a public official.

In Walker’s packet shared online, he’s calling for Deputy Hernandez to undergo an immediate federal and internal affairs investigation while also being placed on administrative leave, alongside a threat and mental health assessment. Others on social media, however, seem to be more geared towards immediate termination.

Whether Deputy Hernandez’s alleged social media posts cross the threshold into violating state or federal law, the legalities of the matter don’t address the overarching concerns regarding the deputy’s moral and ethical compass, nor his apparent biases, when executing his duties as a law enforcement officer. Because when someone holds the power to arrest or dole out citations, the last thing people should have to worry about is whether they were targeted for perhaps a political bumper sticker or maybe a last name that sounds a bit too Jewish.

When it comes to someone tasked with enforcing and upholding the law, carrying a government-issued firearm and having the ability to restrict one’s literal freedom, the last thing any level-headed citizen would want endowed with the aforementioned is someone who ostensibly sees roughly half of the country as some kind of enemy.