Veteran Deputy DA suspended after controversial social media posts
(FOX 11) - A top gang prosecutor in San Bernardino county has been suspended from his job following a series of outrageous and racially offensive social media posts.
Tonight, the dog was barking loudly but that was the only sound coming from Deputy District Attorney Michael Selyem's Placentia home.
He's been hanging up on reporters who've reached him at work and on his cell so we figured we'd see if he wanted to talk in person, a long shot maybe but it was worth a try.
After we knocked a bit, someone from behind one of those mesh metal screen doors, that had been opened, firmly closed the wood front door behind it.
Message received.
Selyem, you may have heard by now, posted a series of social media ''comments'' even his boss DA Michael Ramos labeled '' discriminatory'' and evidence of ''bias." He hasn't fired Selyem, but he did put him on ''administrative leave'' while his office investigates the circumstances.
Selyem has said nothing so far publicly. All this after the San Bernardino Sun published the graphic comments taken from social media before Selyem's accounts were disabled.
We of course have the 1st amendment, freedom of expression in this country, but as an employee, particularly one in public service that requires unshakeable ethics and fairness, you are essentially limited in what you can say publicly. Or you should be.
We'll see what Ramos decides about Selyem's fate. There's a process, they're going through it.