Community members on Reddit and Facebook expressed concern about comments made by Adam Cunningham, a candidate for Wilsonville City Council, on his social media and YouTube accounts.
The comments in question were made on Cunningham’s two YouTube and X accounts, under the names The Cover Officer and Officer Blue Gun. Among other things, Cunningham — who appears on camera in the YouTube videos — encouraged people not to comply with vaccine mandates and wrote “women are for sex” in response to another post. In other videos posted to the YouTube channels, he narrates police body cam footage — at times making jokes about footage of people being arrested by force.
The posts and videos were shared in a Reddit post and also discussed on the People of Wilsonville Facebook page over the weekend.
Posts on social media
In response to criticism of the post on X, Cunningham replied that it was a sarcastic response to “a ridiculous comment.” The original X post was a “Dear Annie” column from The Oregonian on a woman whose partner believes she and her daughters should “know (their) place as women”, and one reply to the post implied that the woman should sleep with the partner’s friends “on her way out but only if they’re more evolved than he is which sounds like it would be a low bar.” Cunningham replied to this post saying “This guy gets it. Women are for sex.” Responding on Facebook to concerns over the comment, Cunningham said that his reply “was a sarcastic response to a ridiculous comment.”