Someone can’t handle social media, apparently.
As demonstrators in New York City continued Monday to protest recent deaths of black men at the hands of law enforcement agents, a Twitter account representing the NYPD’s Midtown South precinct on Monday tweeted an ill-timed quote from the 1992 drama “A Few Good Men.”
“You can’t handle the truth!” the quote begins. “Son, we live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns. Who’s gonna’ do it? You?”
“I have a greater responsibility than you can possibly fathom,” continued the speech spoken by actor Jack Nicholson. “You don’t want the truth, because deep down in places you don’t talk about at parties, you want me on that wall. You need me on that wall.”
The NYPD-related tweet, sent out as part of the account’s “motivational Monday” series, raised several eyebrows, the context of Nicholson’s speech coming off to some as inappropriate.
Remember: Nicholson’s character, Col. Nathan R. Jessup, admits at the end of the movie that he gave the order that lead to the death of a U.S. Marine. In short, the optics of the NYPD choosing during the recent unrest to cite a character that used his position of authority to murder another man is a bit confusing.
“Might want to re-watch that one, fellas,” the Washington Free Beacon’s Lachlan Markay remarked on Twitter.
RedState editor Leon Wolf wrote, voicing his shock at the NYPD’s “motivation Monday” tweet: “I mean, this would be like someone singing “Born in the USA” while having no clue that it’s an anti-American song.”
The tweet has since been deleted from the account.
A spokeswoman for the NYPD, Officer Arlene Muniz, told the Washington Post she was aware of the tweet, but would offer no further comment.
