According to city documents, during the course of the investigation, the city also asked the investigator to investigate allegations by a detective that Kammerzell asked him to Photoshop a personal photograph of a dog while on duty, and at that time, showed the detective a photograph of himself with a Hitler mustache wearing lederhosen, and then referenced another photograph in which Kammerzell was with an elected official and raised his hand in a “hail Hitler” gesture.
Kammerzell also told the investigator that a co-worker encouraged him to watch the TV show “The Man in the High Castle.” He said one of the main characters had the name of Obergruppenfuhrer and that a co-worker then gave him that nickname and other assistant chiefs began to call him that, according to city documents.
The evidence, according to the investigator, also suggests Kammerzell referred to himself as Obergruppenfuhrer and that he compared the Nazi symbol more than once to the current Kent Police uniforms.
two-week suspension
A finger-wagging for accidentally letting the mask slip too low.
I love living on the here corridor. Simultaneously a bastion of liberal progressives, but also run by hereditary dynasties of militias and landed elites.
The Police Department expects Assistant Chief Kammerzell will continue to abide by the department’s values and policies in the future.”
He’s a fash, His values always matched the department’s. They have an issue with him publicly displaying them.
Reminds me of the Portland police officer who did regular LARPing in nazi cosplay and eventually got a promotion to branch chief or whatever
“I am deeply embarrassed by this incident,” Kammerzell said in a Dec. 30 email to the Kent Reporter. “I wish I could take it back. I know now what that rank represents, and that is not what I value or who I am."
:thonk:
Kammerzell also told the investigator that a co-worker encouraged him to watch the TV show “The Man in the High Castle.” He said one of the main characters had the name of Obergruppenfuhrer and that a co-worker then gave him that nickname and other assistant chiefs began to call him that, according to city documents.
Kammerzell said he Googled the name Obergruppenfuhrer and a result displayed the symbol that he then printed and placed above his door, according to city documents.
Damn. Just no way to know that the Germans in Man in the High Castles were Nazis. Perfectly honest mistake.
