--- title: Florida 'Hot Cop' Suspended Over Anti-Semitic Facebook Posts description: One of the three Gainesville, Fla. "hot cops" that went viral for their looks earlier this week has been suspended canonical: https://time.com/4944580/florida-hot-cop-michael-hamill-suspended-anti-semitic-facebook-post/ author: Aric Jenkins article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-09-15T22:13:01.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T17:27:20.099Z article:section: U.S. og:title: Florida 'Hot Cop' Suspended After Accusation of Anti-Semitic Facebook Posts og:description: The alleged date back to 2011 and 2013 og:url: https://time.com/4944580/florida-hot-cop-michael-hamill-suspended-anti-semitic-facebook-post/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1a1d1ba23d4516fd/6988dd9a096a94714f69f92d/21462521_10154671675062015_8023962366847886664_n-copy-e1505321782558.jpg?branch=production&width=1080&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: 21462521_10154671675062015_8023962366847886664_n copy og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Florida 'Hot Cop' Suspended After Accusation of Anti-Semitic Facebook Posts twitter:description: The alleged date back to 2011 and 2013 twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1a1d1ba23d4516fd/6988dd9a096a94714f69f92d/21462521_10154671675062015_8023962366847886664_n-copy-e1505321782558.jpg?branch=production&width=1080&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Florida 'Hot Cop' Suspended After Accusation of Anti-Semitic Facebook Posts by [Aric Jenkins](/author/aric-jenkins/) ## Aric Jenkins Sep 15, 2017 10:13 PM CUT  (From left to right) Gainesville Police Department Officers John Nordman, Michael Hamill and Dan Rengering (From left to right) Gainesville Police Department Officers John Nordman, Michael Hamill and Dan RengeringGainesville Police Department by [Aric Jenkins](/author/aric-jenkins/) ## Aric Jenkins Sep 15, 2017 10:13 PM CUT One of the three Gainesville, Fla. “hot cops” that went viral for their looks earlier this week has been suspended after the Gainesville Police Department received complaints regarding anti-Semitic posts on Facebook. Officer Michael Hamill, who [told TIME on Wednesday](http://time.com/4939672/gainesville-police-officers-hot/?iid=sr-link1 "undefined") that he’s “never had this much attention before,” allegedly made the remarks on his personal Facebook page, [the Gainesville _Sun_ reported Thursday](http://www.gainesville.com/news/20170914/gpd-receives-complaint-against-hot-cop "undefined"). In response, the Gainesville PD issued a statement Friday that Hamill had been suspended with pay. “GPD is reviewing the allegations and will do so in accordance to Florida law and department policy,” the statement reads, adding that the department “takes these allegations extremely seriously.” > [](https://twitter.com/GainesvillePD/status/908777391769706496) A screenshot of one of the Facebook posts sent to the _Sun_ dates back to 2011, the paper reported. Two more screenshots were from an April 2013 post. Hamill, along with Officers Dan Rengering and Josh Nordman, first gained viral attention Sunday due to a photo posted on the department’s Facebook page that showed the trio working during [Hurricane Irma.](http://time.com/4940114/hurricane-irma-florida-damage/ "undefined") The post received more than 181,000 comments, 517,000 likes and 276,000 shares, the _Sun_ reported, before the post was deleted, presumably due to the allegations against Hamill. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4944580/florida-hot-cop-michael-hamill-suspended-anti-semitic-facebook-post/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4944580/florida-hot-cop-michael-hamill-suspended-anti-semitic-facebook-post/"},"headline":"Florida 'Hot Cop' Suspended After Accusation of Anti-Semitic Facebook Posts","datePublished":"2017-09-15T22:13:01.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T17:27:20.099Z","description":"The alleged date back to 2011 and 2013","url":"https://time.com/4944580/florida-hot-cop-michael-hamill-suspended-anti-semitic-facebook-post/","keywords":["Florida","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1a1d1ba23d4516fd/6988dd9a096a94714f69f92d/21462521_10154671675062015_8023962366847886664_n-copy-e1505321782558.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Aric Jenkins","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/aric-jenkins/"}],"articleSection":"U.S.","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1a1d1ba23d4516fd/6988dd9a096a94714f69f92d/21462521_10154671675062015_8023962366847886664_n-copy-e1505321782558.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"21462521_10154671675062015_8023962366847886664_n copy","caption":"(From left to right) Gainesville Police Department Officers John Nordman, Michael Hamill and Dan Rengering","creditText":"Gainesville Police Department","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/us/","name":"U.S."}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/florida/","name":"Florida"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4944580/florida-hot-cop-michael-hamill-suspended-anti-semitic-facebook-post/","name":"Florida 'Hot Cop' Suspended After Accusation of Anti-Semitic Facebook Posts"}}]}] ```