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Ford Fischer

@FordFischer

Apr 26, 2021 • 9 tweets • 6 min read • Read on X

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"F*** off, c*** f***er!"

As protested were outside the house of prosecutor Pete Orpu in Stillwater, neighbor/corrections officer Paul Gorder confronted the crowd.

"You touch my wife, I'll kick your ass," he said.

"All you f***ing n***ers, get out of here," his wife said.

https://twitter.com/MinnCorrections/status/1131660717181022212

Sgt. Paul Gorder is a "30-year veteran of Minnesota Correctional Facility – Stillwater. He is well known and highly respected among staff and incarcerated men at the facility" according to the jail he works at, whose team logo he wore during the encounter.

https://twitter.com/MinnCorrections/status/1131660717181022212

You can see the full context of the interaction here from the 02:05:16 mark of my livestream.

"Shut up!" Sgt. Gorder says to Stillwater Police trying to calm the situation. "She's [wife] trying to help!"

Only ID'ing him because he is in law enforcement.

pscp.tv/FordFischer/1Y…

I ran up as the confrontation was occurring and missed the very beginning of it.

An activist explain that the wife - apparently drunk - tried to get into her neighbor's car.

When asked about driving drunk, she apparently got mad at protesters for blocking neighbors' driveway.

@bymyelf

Sgt. Paul Gorder is actually known to the activists.

Only 3 days ago, @bymyelf filmed as he was furious at protesters rallying in the same place, but then recognized and hugged a participant who had been in his jail.

"I know Paul" the activist said.

This is actually not Sgt. Gorder's only experience with activism.

From 2010:

"Corrections Sgt. Paul Gorder became emotional at a rally outside Stillwater prison on Tuesday to protest the cuts over staffing at three Minnesota correctional facilities."

startribune.com/corrections-of…

@amyklobuchar

The man Sgt. Paul Gorder hugged a few days ago who apparently recognized him was Myon Burrell, the man prosecuted by @amyklobuchar and sentenced to life, but whose innocence was proven and freedom restored after 18 years.

https://twitter.com/bymyelf/status/1386528120040148995

Sgt. Paul Gorder has apparently been placed on "investigatory leave" after Minnesota Department of Corrections being confronted with a separate angle of the same incident I documented last night.

“‘I noticed that both of them were slurring their words, having trouble maintaining their balance and that they smelled heavily of an odor consistent with that of a consumed alcoholic beverage,’ a police officer wrote in the report.”

twincities.com/2021/04/26/doc…

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