'Love a happy ending': Ohio cop put on paid leave over a Facebook comment about Black Lives Matter activist who committed suicide
PUBLISHED: 15:57 EST, 12 February 2016 | UPDATED: 17:23 EST, 12 February 2016
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An Ohio police officer is being put on paid leave over a Facebook comment about a Black Lives Matter activist who killed himself on the Statehouse steps, officials said.
The comment posted under Fairborn officer Lee Cyr's account read 'Love a happy ending'.
It was posted in the Ohio Politics Facebook page Wednesday, two days after MarShawn McCarrel II killed himself on an article about the 23-year-old's death.
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Fairborn officer Lee Cyr was placed on paid leave over a Facebook comment about MarShawn McCarrel II, who killed himself on Monday
Two days after MarShawn McCarrel II (pictured) killed himself, Cyr wrote 'love a happy ending' on an article about the 23-year-old's death
Police say Cyr was off duty when the comment was posted.
Other social media users left similarly hateful remarks, including 'Now if only all black lifes (sic) matter members would follow suit that would be great'.
City Police Chief Terry Barlow says internal affairs investigators will try to determine if Cyr violated the department's social media policy.
Cyr didn't return calls seeking comment.
McCarrel, who was from suburban Franklin Township, shot himself near the front door of the Statehouse in Columbus on Monday.
McCarrel helped organize protests in Ohio after a Missouri cop shot and killed unarmed black teenager Michael Brown in 2014. He also worked with Black Lives Matter.
'My demons won today. I'm sorry,' he wrote on his Facebook page hours before his body was discovered.
Other social media users left similarly hateful remarks (left), including 'Now if only all black lifes (sic) matter members would follow suit that would be great'. McCarrel, who was from suburban Franklin Township, shot himself near the front door of the Statehouse in Columbus on Monday
McCarrel, who was a Black Lives Matter activist, wrote on Facebook and Twitter just hours before he killed himself on Monday
His last tweet read: 'Let the record show that I pissed on the state house before I left.'
McCarrel's family said he often put causes before himself, and his emotionally draining work took a tool on him. He had just attended the NAACP Image Awards, according to the New York Daily News.
'He impacted so many people, touched so many lives,' his mother Leatha Wellington said.
McCarrel also founded an organization called Pursuing Our Dreams, which launched Feed the Streets, a project to help feed and nurture Ohio's homeless population.
Earlier this year, McCarrel was named one of Radio One’s Hometown Champions for his community activism.
'He is selfless and will give his last in order to make sure others don't go without,' read a nomination page for the award. 'MarShawn has come so far in life and has inspired so many people to help others'
- Fairborn officer Lee Cyr was placed on paid leave over a Facebook comment about MarShawn McCarrel II, who killed himself on Monday
- The comment posted under Cyr's account read 'Love a happy ending'
- It was posted on an article in the Ohio Politics Facebook page Wednesday
- City Police Chief Terry Barlow says internal affairs investigators will try to determine if Cyr violated the department's social media policy
- McCarrel, 23, who was from suburban Franklin Township, shot himself near the front door of the Statehouse on Monday
PUBLISHED: 15:57 EST, 12 February 2016 | UPDATED: 17:23 EST, 12 February 2016
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An Ohio police officer is being put on paid leave over a Facebook comment about a Black Lives Matter activist who killed himself on the Statehouse steps, officials said.
The comment posted under Fairborn officer Lee Cyr's account read 'Love a happy ending'.
It was posted in the Ohio Politics Facebook page Wednesday, two days after MarShawn McCarrel II killed himself on an article about the 23-year-old's death.
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Fairborn officer Lee Cyr was placed on paid leave over a Facebook comment about MarShawn McCarrel II, who killed himself on Monday
Two days after MarShawn McCarrel II (pictured) killed himself, Cyr wrote 'love a happy ending' on an article about the 23-year-old's death
Police say Cyr was off duty when the comment was posted.
Other social media users left similarly hateful remarks, including 'Now if only all black lifes (sic) matter members would follow suit that would be great'.
City Police Chief Terry Barlow says internal affairs investigators will try to determine if Cyr violated the department's social media policy.
Cyr didn't return calls seeking comment.
McCarrel, who was from suburban Franklin Township, shot himself near the front door of the Statehouse in Columbus on Monday.
McCarrel helped organize protests in Ohio after a Missouri cop shot and killed unarmed black teenager Michael Brown in 2014. He also worked with Black Lives Matter.
'My demons won today. I'm sorry,' he wrote on his Facebook page hours before his body was discovered.
Other social media users left similarly hateful remarks (left), including 'Now if only all black lifes (sic) matter members would follow suit that would be great'. McCarrel, who was from suburban Franklin Township, shot himself near the front door of the Statehouse in Columbus on Monday
McCarrel, who was a Black Lives Matter activist, wrote on Facebook and Twitter just hours before he killed himself on Monday
His last tweet read: 'Let the record show that I pissed on the state house before I left.'
McCarrel's family said he often put causes before himself, and his emotionally draining work took a tool on him. He had just attended the NAACP Image Awards, according to the New York Daily News.
'He impacted so many people, touched so many lives,' his mother Leatha Wellington said.
McCarrel also founded an organization called Pursuing Our Dreams, which launched Feed the Streets, a project to help feed and nurture Ohio's homeless population.
Earlier this year, McCarrel was named one of Radio One’s Hometown Champions for his community activism.
'He is selfless and will give his last in order to make sure others don't go without,' read a nomination page for the award. 'MarShawn has come so far in life and has inspired so many people to help others'
So he gets to sit at home with his ignorant ass and still collect a check till "the heat is off".
Real shyt I wish I could get paid vacation for saying some shyt like this about a white person 
