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Indiana deputy AG fired after he urged police to 'use live ammunition' on
protesters

By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 12:27 AM on 24th
February 2011

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A deputy attorney general in Indiana has been sacked after calling for the
use of live ammunition against union protesters in Wisconsin .

Jeffrey Cox made the inflammatory statement via his Twitter account.

He was responding to a posting by liberal magazine Mother Jones that said
riot police could sweep demonstrators out of the Wisconsin Capitol building
where they were protesting labour legislation.

Fight: Demonstrators protesting in the Capitol building in
Wisconsin. Indiana deputy attorney general Jeffrey Cox called for live
ammunition to be used on them

According to Mother Jones, one of its reporters contacted the person behind
the Tweet and discovered it was Cox.

When challenged about the statement, he Tweeted back that the demonstrators
were 'political enemies' and 'thugs' who were 'physically threatening
legally-elected officials', according to the magazine.

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He added: 'You're damned right I advocate deadly force', before calling the
reporter a 'typical leftist' adding 'liberals hate police', Mother Voice
said.

In a separate e-mail, Mother Jones asked Cox to provide some context for his
remarks.

Provocative: Cox made the inflammatory comment in response
to a post on Twitter that riot police may sweep protesters out of the Capitol
building

According to the magazine, he replied 'For "context?" Or to silence me? All
my comments on twitter and my blog are my own and no one else's. And I can
defend them all.'

The Indiana attorney general's office said in a statement that Cox was 'no
longer employed by the state'.

It added: 'Civility and courtesy toward all members of the public are very
important to the Indiana Attorney General's Office.

'We respect individuals' First Amendment right to express their personal
views on private online forums, but as public servants we are held by the public
to a higher standard, and we should strive for civility.'

Boss: Indiana Attorney General Greg Zoeller, pictured, has
sacked Cox over his comments on Twitter

Cox made his comments on Saturday night as thousands of protesters occupied
the state Capital in Wisconsin.

The demonstrators have been there for eight days now in an attempt to block a
bill that would strip public employees of most of their collective bargaining
rights.

Wisconsin faces a $3.6bn budget deficit in the coming two-year period - the
public employee bill is designed to save $300m during that time.

Democratic lawmakers, union leaders and rank-and-file teachers and
firefighters have called on Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker to back off his
plan.

They argue that the unions have already agreed to cuts in their health care
and retirement benefits that could reduce take-home pay for many workers by
about 8 per cent, and it was time for the Republican governor to compromise.

But Gov. Walker has warned that state employees could start receiving lay-off
notices from next week if the bill isn't passed by Friday.

He said up to 1,500 workers could lose their jobs by July, although he has
failed to say which workers would be targeted.

The union unrest is spreading through the mid-western U.S. and has already
reached Ohio and Indiana.

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