Good Riddance: Corrections officer that made fun of Tops mass shooting victims retires
Former corrections officer, Gregory Foster II, who mocked mass shooting victims in Buffalo has retired from his job pending a disciplinary hearing. (Credit: EEW Magazine)
By Toya Bishop // News // EEW Magazine Online
A corrections officer’s incorrect decision to publish a social media post mocking victims of the Tops Friendly Market mass shooting in Buffalo, NY, has retired.
According to WKBW, Gregory Foster II, was suspended without pay in May after featuring an image on his Facebook page showing a picture of the grocery store where a racist teen murdered ten people and this caption: “Clean up on aisle 3, no wait 4, also on 7, 9, 12, and 13.”
Then he asked, “Too soon?” adding, “This should weed out some FB friends,” ending the insensitive post with laughing emojis.
“A white corrections officer who sought cheap laughs at the expense of Buffalo mass shooting victims probably isn’t laughing now that he’s out of an $80,000 per year job.”
From the looks of things, that joke which was in extremely poor taste turned out to be the most expensive cheap laugh Foster ever got—since he is now out of an $80,000 annual salary.
In May, the New York State Department of Corrections said, "The comments made by this correction officer are despicable, stand in violation of multiple Department rules, and will not be tolerated. This vile posting does not represent the morals and values of the thousands of staff members in the Department."
Friday, a DOCCS spokesperson said, Foster, who worked as a correction officer at the Attica Correctional Facility since June of 1997, retired from service while awaiting a disciplinary hearing.
Good riddance.
