racist police
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Former Portsmouth, Va., Police Chief Claims Her Forced Resignation Was Racially Motivated
Former Portsmouth Police Chief Tonya Chapman—the first black woman to lead a city police department in the state of Virginia—said in a statement on Monday that she was forced to resign after attempting to eradicate the racism and discriminatory behavior within her department. “Having been a member of two other law enforcement agencies, I have…
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Cop Kept His Job After Calling Teenage Black Girl a 'Wild Animal That Needs To Be Put Down'
New documents reveal that a Kentucky police officer who repeatedly made racist remarks on social media only received a slap on the wrist when his bosses discovered his publicly recurring bigotry. According to WDRB, former Louisville, Ky., police officer Brian Smith received a 30-day suspension without pay for violating the Louisville Metropolitan Police Department’s social…
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Cleveland Cop Caught Using N-Word in Texts, Gets Slap on the Wrist
A Cleveland police detective, who works in a predominantly black neighborhood, was found to have used the n-word to refer to Ohio State football players, according to an internal police investigation. For his infraction, Det. John Kraynik, who works in Cleveland’s Fourth District, basically received a slap on the wrist (Cleveland.com reports that he was…
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Florida Police Chief Told Cops to Pin Crimes on Black Teens, Adults to Boost Crime Stats: Report
A former police chief in a Southern Florida suburb has been indicted for pressuring his officers to pin crimes on any African American with “somewhat of a record” to keep the crime stats in his jurisdiction perfect. The Miami Herald reports that Raimundo Atesiano created a culture in the Biscayne Park Police Department that targeted…
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Are White Supremacists Infiltrating Law Enforcement?
You would have missed it if you weren’t listening carefully. On Sunday’s 60 Minutes, the second segment of the night was a profile of Christian Picciolini, a reformed skinhead-slash-racist-slash-dude-who-used-to-beat-black-people-up-on-the-reg; a man Dylann Roof recently called a “race traitor.” After saying that he had suffered an angry childhood in Illinois (that would be north of the…
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Philadelphia Police-Union Head Defends Nazi Cop, Calls BLM a ‘Pack of Rabid Animals’
For any significant change to American policing to occur, we have to deal with upend police unions, which wield extraordinary power and influence. Most times, police unions support their officers unconditionally, even when it’s more than obvious that police are in the wrong; they also tend to disparage victims of police brutality, as well as…
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New Okla. Police Chief Resigns Over Neo-Nazi Ties, Claims He Was Hacked
Social media continues to rip the mask off white supremacy. This time, a police chief for a small town in Oklahoma said his goodbyes to his job after being exposed for having ties to not one, but two neo-Nazi websites. Bart Alsbrook, who was named interim Colbert, Okla., police chief on Tuesday, has denied the…
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DC Cop Under Investigation for Wearing Shirt With KKK Symbol While on Duty
An officer with the Metropolitan Police Department in Washington, D.C., has been accused of wearing a shirt with a racist symbol on it while he was on duty, and he has now been placed on “noncontact status” pending the department’s investigation into the incident. Law4BlackLives, a group of lawyers who support the Black Lives Matter…