Posted on Apr 20, 2023
Oklahoma county commissioner accused of making violent, racist remarks on tape resigns
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An Oklahoma county commissioner resigned on Wednesday after being caught on a recording allegedly making violent and racist remarks and jokes with members of the McCurtain County Sheriff's Office.
McCurtain County Commissioner Mark Jennings submitted a curt resignation letter written on lined notebook paper at about 8:30 a.m. local time.
"Effective immediately, I, Mark Jennings do hereby resign as McCurtain County District #2 commissioner. I will release a formal statement in the near future regarding the recent events in our county," Jennings wrote.
Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt had called on Jennings and three other county officials, including Sheriff Kevin Clardy, investigator Alicia Manning and jail administrator Larry Hendrix, to resign after they were caught on a March 6 recording.
An Oklahoma county commissioner resigned on Wednesday after being caught on a recording allegedly making violent and racist remarks and jokes with members of the McCurtain County Sheriff's Office.
McCurtain County Commissioner Mark Jennings submitted a curt resignation letter written on lined notebook paper at about 8:30 a.m. local time.
"Effective immediately, I, Mark Jennings do hereby resign as McCurtain County District #2 commissioner. I will release a formal statement in the near future regarding the recent events in our county," Jennings wrote.
Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt had called on Jennings and three other county officials, including Sheriff Kevin Clardy, investigator Alicia Manning and jail administrator Larry Hendrix, to resign after they were caught on a March 6 recording.
Oklahoma county commissioner accused of making violent, racist remarks on tape resigns
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1.) ‘We are just gonna go out and start slaughtering them’: Three cops fired after racist talk of killing black residents
Sitting in his patrol car in Wilmington, N.C., Officer Michael “Kevin” Piner predicted Black Lives Matter protests would soon lead to civil war. “I’m ready,” Piner told another officer, adding that he planned to buy an assault rifle.
“We are just going to go out and start slaughtering them f------ n------,” he said.
The shocking threat came amid extended, openly racist conversations between Piner, 44, and two other police officers, 50-year-old Cpl. Jesse E. Moore II, and 48-year-old Officer James “Brian” Gilmore.
In the discussions, taped by accident on a patrol car camera and released Wednesday by the department, the men freely drop racial slurs, suggest killing black residents and deride protesters.
“Wipe 'em off the f------ map,” Piner said of African Americans. “That’ll put 'em back about four or five generations.”
All three officers were fired Wednesday, with new Wilmington Police Chief Donny Williams, who is black, calling the conversations “brutally offensive.”
“This is the most exceptional and difficult case I have encountered in my career,” said Williams, who was just hired as chief on Tuesday.
“We must establish new reforms for policing here at home and throughout this country.”
The officers’ vile discussions came to light purely by chance.
On June 4, a sergeant was conducting routine video reviews when she found a nearly two-hour long clip from Piner’s cruiser created by an “accidental activation,” according to a department report.
After listening to the racist discussion, she alerted a superior who started an internal investigation.
SOURCE : https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/06/25/wilmington-racist-police-recording/
2.) READING ON
POLICE USE OF DEADLY FORCE
SOURCE : https://www.ojp.gov/pdffiles1/87616.pdf
3.) Antioch police text scandal: officer boasts about hurting suspects
By Aja Seldon
Published 2 days ago
KTVU FOX 2
Antioch cop brags about hurting suspects, text messages show
An Antioch police officer bragged about his use of brutal force during the takedown of two Black men, according to the latest batch of text messages released from an investigation into misconduct permeating the Antioch Police Department.
Then, when suspects Terryon Pugh and Trent Allen were caught, one officer boasted about hurting the men during their arrests and shared photos of the injured suspects from their hospital beds.
The texts are part of a broad investigation of the Antioch Police Department by local prosecutors and the FBI.
Last week, the DA released messages from 14 Antioch officers involving racist and homophobic comments as well as possible admissions of other types of misconduct on duty.
A joint investigation conducted by the FBI and the Contra Costa County District Attorney’s Office released a report on Thursday detailing dozens of incidents of racist, homophobic, sexist and derogatory text messages involving 14 Antioch Police Department officers.
Today's DA report focuses on the messages sent and received by Officer Eric Rombough. In one text from March 23 last year, he said to his wife that he was "gonna unleash the 40 god next week."
Rombough was referring to the deployment of his 40mm launcher that fires non-lethal projectiles, the district attorney's report said.
Rombough continued to gloat about the arrests to another person, whose name is redacted in the investigative report.
"We managed to set up a perimeter and he got his a whooped in the back yard and I field goal kicked his head," he texted. Rombough then added, "I tried to knock him unconscious. And he got muzzle thumped 6 times before he gave us his hands."
Rombough also sent photos of Trent and Pugh's injuries after the violent arrests separately to Sgt. Josh Evans, United States Postal Inspector Francisco Garcia, and an unnamed person.
They all seemingly cheered at Rombough's actions, the report shows.
SOURCE : https://www.ktvu.com/news/antioch-police-text-scandal-officer-boasts-about-hurting-suspects.amp
Sitting in his patrol car in Wilmington, N.C., Officer Michael “Kevin” Piner predicted Black Lives Matter protests would soon lead to civil war. “I’m ready,” Piner told another officer, adding that he planned to buy an assault rifle.
“We are just going to go out and start slaughtering them f------ n------,” he said.
The shocking threat came amid extended, openly racist conversations between Piner, 44, and two other police officers, 50-year-old Cpl. Jesse E. Moore II, and 48-year-old Officer James “Brian” Gilmore.
In the discussions, taped by accident on a patrol car camera and released Wednesday by the department, the men freely drop racial slurs, suggest killing black residents and deride protesters.
“Wipe 'em off the f------ map,” Piner said of African Americans. “That’ll put 'em back about four or five generations.”
All three officers were fired Wednesday, with new Wilmington Police Chief Donny Williams, who is black, calling the conversations “brutally offensive.”
“This is the most exceptional and difficult case I have encountered in my career,” said Williams, who was just hired as chief on Tuesday.
“We must establish new reforms for policing here at home and throughout this country.”
The officers’ vile discussions came to light purely by chance.
On June 4, a sergeant was conducting routine video reviews when she found a nearly two-hour long clip from Piner’s cruiser created by an “accidental activation,” according to a department report.
After listening to the racist discussion, she alerted a superior who started an internal investigation.
SOURCE : https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/06/25/wilmington-racist-police-recording/
2.) READING ON
POLICE USE OF DEADLY FORCE
SOURCE : https://www.ojp.gov/pdffiles1/87616.pdf
3.) Antioch police text scandal: officer boasts about hurting suspects
By Aja Seldon
Published 2 days ago
KTVU FOX 2
Antioch cop brags about hurting suspects, text messages show
An Antioch police officer bragged about his use of brutal force during the takedown of two Black men, according to the latest batch of text messages released from an investigation into misconduct permeating the Antioch Police Department.
Then, when suspects Terryon Pugh and Trent Allen were caught, one officer boasted about hurting the men during their arrests and shared photos of the injured suspects from their hospital beds.
The texts are part of a broad investigation of the Antioch Police Department by local prosecutors and the FBI.
Last week, the DA released messages from 14 Antioch officers involving racist and homophobic comments as well as possible admissions of other types of misconduct on duty.
A joint investigation conducted by the FBI and the Contra Costa County District Attorney’s Office released a report on Thursday detailing dozens of incidents of racist, homophobic, sexist and derogatory text messages involving 14 Antioch Police Department officers.
Today's DA report focuses on the messages sent and received by Officer Eric Rombough. In one text from March 23 last year, he said to his wife that he was "gonna unleash the 40 god next week."
Rombough was referring to the deployment of his 40mm launcher that fires non-lethal projectiles, the district attorney's report said.
Rombough continued to gloat about the arrests to another person, whose name is redacted in the investigative report.
"We managed to set up a perimeter and he got his a whooped in the back yard and I field goal kicked his head," he texted. Rombough then added, "I tried to knock him unconscious. And he got muzzle thumped 6 times before he gave us his hands."
Rombough also sent photos of Trent and Pugh's injuries after the violent arrests separately to Sgt. Josh Evans, United States Postal Inspector Francisco Garcia, and an unnamed person.
They all seemingly cheered at Rombough's actions, the report shows.
SOURCE : https://www.ktvu.com/news/antioch-police-text-scandal-officer-boasts-about-hurting-suspects.amp
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