Gregory Salcido, who works at a high school in Pico Rivera and also serves on the city council, said in the video that members of the military fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan were “the lowest of the low.” The video was reportedly taken in the middle of a history class Salcido was teaching, as he launched into a rant about how long the wars overseas have dragged on.
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“Because we have a bunch of dumbs—s over there,” Salcido said in the video, which is peppered with profanity. “Think about the people who you know who are over there. Your freaking stupid Uncle Louie or whatever. They’re dumbs—s. They’re not like high-level thinkers, they’re not academic people, they’re not intellectual people. They’re the lowest of our low.”
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