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A local Virginian paper has an update on the death of Kyril Denyakin, including some questionable posts on Facebook by the officer who shot Denyakin.

While the name of the officer hasn’t been released officially, the Virginian Pilot article identifies him as Officer Stephen D. Rankin. I believe I saw earlier reports indicating the officer was a female, but apparently not. Apparently Officer Rankin, whose Facebook page has been taken down, made some online posts that taken together indicate a not so nice guy, including a picture of a lynching with the caption “Doing whatever is necessary” and a picture of his guns with a comment, “That’s rankins box of VENGEANCE!…would be better if i was dirtying them instead of cleaning them!”

Is this the media searching for something to write about or are these posts indications of an officer who views himself as a Dirty Harry cleaning the streets of scumbags? What do you think? I will note that the majority of the comments on that article seem to be missing the point–it isn’t that he had guns or that he liked punk music but that he liked a song called, “Can I Go and Kill Tonight?” I am willing to bet that if the victim had posts about sneaking past the US borders or songs like Copkiller on his profile, people would see it as relevant.