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Cambridge Cop Sent Profane Tweet Against Joe Kennedy III While Using Wrong Log In

Cambridge police apologize after officer “forgot” he was operating the department’s Twitter handle when he called congressman a “jerk” and then some.

A Boston-area police department has apologized after a police officer tweeted a profane tirade against Rep. Joe Kennedy III (D-MA) on the department’s official Twitter account Sunday. The tweet was deleted after the officer realized it wasn’t sent from his own personal account, according to Jeremy Warnick, a Cambridge Police Department spokesman. He didn’t identify the officer who sent the tweet. In response to a WCVB-TV Boston tweet about Kennedy at 2:42 p.m., an officer with access to the department’s Twitter account sent a post that read, “Another liberal fucking jerk who just happens to be better then the clown he’s running against. Sad for us.” The department issued a series of tweets at around 6 p.m. apologizing for the message, which it denounced as “inappropriate, unprofessional, and disrespectful.”