GILBERTON, Pa. (AP) — A small-town Pennsylvania police chief ’s profanity-laced Internet tirades about the Second Amendment and liberals have earned him a measure of notoriety — and now, his bosses intend, a pink slip.
Gilberton Borough Council members said Thursday night they plan to fire Mark Kessler, nearly two months after voting to suspend the only full-time member of the town’s police force.
Kessler, who’s active in gun rights circles and started an armed group that critics call a private militia, posted videos of himself shooting borough-owned automatic weapons and cursing liberals and others who he said want to erode the constitutional right to bear arms.
Kessler said the council’s decision was “no surprise” in light of the incendiary videos.
“We knew it was coming,” he said.
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