McPherson responds to Turner Report: Post was "a new low, even for you"

A few moments ago, I received this response on my Facebook page to my Wednesday evening post about Judd McPherson. It is being run in its entirety, unedited.

Randy,

While I usually ignore it when someone tells me that you have written yet another blog about me, the story that you wrote last night that stated that I said that “It is possible that people who have crossed me and me my family might have trouble getting jobs, might be tossed out of restaurants and just might get tickets” as if it was a threat is a new low, even for you.

It has nothing to do with “threatening” the “people that crossed me” or people that don’t believe the truth about what actually happened that night. I’m not acting on what the public’s opinion is of what happened that night. I don’t care if people think that Devyn and I should be jail.

Earlier post: Judd McPherson warns people on enemies list: I have a large circle of very influential friends

What I care about is people directly reaching out to me and my family with threats of harm (including death threats) and telling Devyn that she should “just go ahead and kill herself” on Jayda’s birthday.

I am certain that neither you nor any of your followers can relate to agony of having someone suggest that on the second most horrific day of your life, and I hope that you never do. The ones that have targeted us with threats and suggested suicide are the people that I posted about. I’m certain that you have read my posts and already know that. The posts are still up for those that want to see them, except for a few that Facebook took down as "not meeting Facebook community standards" since they showed the screenshots encouraging suicide.

I absolutely stand behind my original statement that the people that made those physical threats and suggestions of suicide probably won’t get hired by my friends. Likewise, I would NEVER hire someone that did the same to one of my friends.

Like most businesses, we check the social media of the potential employee before they are hired. The same goes for serving them at my restaurant. I don’t need the business so badly that I would serve someone that would say something so cold-hearted and cruel to a grieving mother, regardless of what they thought might have happened to the deceased child. 

You know that I was a police officer to pay my way through undergraduate school. I wouldn’t have given a warning to someone that had threatened to “put a bullet” in a grieving mother or suggest that she kill herself. Ever. 

Despite what you suggest in your article, I NEVER said that people would get a ticket because they didn’t agree with me. I said that some might not get the warning that they hoped for when they got pulled over because they had acted so unbelievably inhumane. 

As a police officer, I had the same discretion as the officers on the road today. Much of the discretion for warnings that I gave was based on my assessment of that person’s character. It is simply a matter of being accountable as a human being for the way that we treat others. The statements that I posted about were not a “difference of opinion” or simply not agreeing with me or my family, but rather encouraging suicide and threatening us with harm and death.



It is a shame that you support those cruel acts against my family, even as much as you obviously despise us. I have ignored more than any parent / grandparent could be expected to, but there is a line of the minimum standards of human decency that was definitely crossed by each of the people that I wrote about. The fact that I am an attorney doesn’t take away from the fact that I am a father that will not tolerate that level of threats or cruelty against my family. 

At no time did I say in my post that I would use my position to harm others or see to it that they got a traffic ticket. I simply pointed out that cruelty like that is remembered, and eventually catches up with those that act in such a way. 

We live in a pathetically cruel society that is losing touch with the basic principles of compassion and empathy with each passing day. Part of the problem is those that think that death threats are an “opinion”, or think that encouraging the suicide of a grieving mother is “disagreeing on facts”. You are clearly part of the segment of society that supports those thoughts. That is a shame.

Despite the title of your article, I don't have an "enemies list". I do admittedly have a large circle of influential friends. Business owners, business managers, police officers and countless other walks of life. So do you. 

The people that made the threats to my family and suggested suicide should be concerned with the statements being exposed by ANYONE with a large circle of friends. 

Even people that aren’t friends of mine are very good at remembering the names of those that could reflect poorly on their business, or act in a heartless and cruel fashion. I would hope that me or anyone else exposing some of the hatred and threats would encourage people to simply be decent human beings. That was the theme and purpose of my post. Being a decent human being is quickly becoming a lost art. 

You claim that you admit when you are wrong. I hope that when the truth finally comes out, that you are as zealous in your support of us as you have been in your entirely slanted attacks of us. However, I hope that you can understand why I’m not holding my breath.

Respectfully,

Judd McPherson

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