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TexasTowelie

(117,207 posts)
Sun Jan 21, 2018, 07:29 AM Jan 2018

Former assistant police chief sent messages urging recruit to shoot black people

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — A former assistant police chief sent numerous racist messages to a Louisville Metro Police recruit, including one that said if he caught black juveniles smoking marijuana, he should shoot them.

Todd Shaw, who worked in Prospect, Ky., sent the “highly disturbing racist and threatening Facebook messages” to the recruit, according to a letter Jefferson County Attorney Mike O’Connell sent to Prospect Mayor John Evans.

Shaw, who had previously worked 20 years as a Louisville officer, was suspended, then fired, last year from the Prospect force.

O’Connell told Evans that while Shaw and the recruit were discussing a training scenario in which the recruit was to write a paper on "the right thing to do" if he caught three juveniles smoking marijuana, Shaw stated: "F*** the right thing. If black shoot them.”

Read more: https://www.northjersey.com/story/news/nation-now/2018/01/20/former-assistant-police-chief-urged-recruit-shoot-black-people-messages-sent-messages-urging-recruit/1050660001/

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Former assistant police chief sent messages urging recruit to shoot black people (Original Post) TexasTowelie Jan 2018 OP
Trump: Making Racism Cool Again dawg day Jan 2018 #1
Firing is one thing, but I am wondering if because of his job shouldn't he be charged with still_one Jan 2018 #2
He was just playing. lkinwi Jan 2018 #3
Surprising Bayard Jan 2018 #4

dawg day

(7,947 posts)
1. Trump: Making Racism Cool Again
Sun Jan 21, 2018, 08:05 AM
Jan 2018

What his idiot followers don't get is-- they're not rich and powerful. They can't get away with what he gets away with.

still_one

(96,753 posts)
2. Firing is one thing, but I am wondering if because of his job shouldn't he be charged with
Sun Jan 21, 2018, 08:07 AM
Jan 2018

violations of the Civil Rights Act

Bayard

(24,145 posts)
4. Surprising
Sun Jan 21, 2018, 11:48 AM
Jan 2018

Prospect is an eastern bedroom community of Louisville, and a lot of fairly wealthy people live there, generally liberal.

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