Records: Troubled officer called club-goers ‘savages’

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He also described Heather Heyer, the woman killed while protesting a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Va., as “an a**hole killed by another a**hole” and said NFL players who kneel during the national anthem were “overpaid thugs.”

Schellhorn’s Facebook comments sparked a separate Internal Affairs investigation. Both probes eventually led to the same punishment: Schellhorn was given 80-hour suspensions for each, but each time the officer was allowed to stay on the job after opting to forfeit accrued time off.

OPD spokesman Sgt. Eduardo Bernal said Schellhorn faced the same discipline for both offenses because they didn’t meet the agency’s guidelines for “progressive discipline,” which allow increased punishment if an officer repeats the same policy violation.

That’s because of the timeline, Bernal said: The Parliament House incident happened in May 2017, followed by the Facebook rant that August — but the investigation of the first incident didn’t begin until later, in October 2017.

The investigation of Schellhorn’s social media comments led to a public rift between OPD and its Citizens’ Police Review Board, members of which have argued the officer should be fired.

But the board didn’t review OPD’s investigation of the incident at Parliament House, which