"UPDATE: 5:15 p.m. ― The officer involved in this case has been fired, according to Police Chief Mike Register, who delivered remarks Thursday.
‘I don’t know what is in his heart, but I know what came out of his mouth,’ Register said, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. ‘We recommend that he be terminated and we are moving forward on that.’
PREVIOUSLY:
An outrageous video surfaced online this week showing a Georgia police officer reassuring a woman that she was safe in his presence because she wasn’t black.
‘Remember, we only kill black people,’ Cobb County Police Lt. Gregg Abbott is heard saying on dashcam video obtained by WSB-TV Wednesday. ‘We only kill black people, right?’
The video, which was reportedly captured after the woman was pulled over during a DUI stop, was taken last year and recently resurfaced after WSB-TV submitted an open-records request. The woman can be heard telling the officer that she was afraid to move her hands because she had seen too many videos of police encounters with motorists ending deadly, as was the case for a number of black Americans like Sam DuBose and Philando Castile."
(Via.). Cop Reassures Woman During DUI Stop: 'Remember, We Only Kill Black People' | HuffPost:
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