Baton Rouge cop resigns after he’s caught texting desire to ‘pull a Ferguson’ on ‘n*ggers’

[DonViejo]

By Scott Kaufman
Friday, September 5, 2014 12:53 EDT

A police officer in Baton Rouge resigned Thursday after a local news channel revealed that he sent text messages in which he wished that fellow officers “would pull a Ferguson” on a “bunch of monkeys,” The Advocate reports.

Fifteen-year-veteran Michael Elsbury resigned on Thursday after text messages he sent to a female friend were brought to the attention of his superiors. In one message, Officer Elsbury — whose patrol included the area around the historically black Southern University — wrote that blacks are “nothing but a bunch of monkeys,” and that the “only reason they have this job is the nigger, nigger in them.” It is unclear what “job” he is referring to.

In another text, he wrote that “I wish someone would pull a Ferguson on them and take them out. I hate looking at those African monkeys at work…I enjoy arresting those thugs with their saggy pants.”

After WBRZ reported on the text messages, the female friend turned her phone over to police, who spent two days combing through it in order to authenticate the messages. At 6:15 p.m. on Wednesday night, the Baton Rouge Police Department had collected enough evidence to place Officer Elsbury on administrative leave.

On Thursday afternoon, he tendered his resignation.

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[joeybee12]

1. I'm starting to think guys like this are not the exception...

but the rule.

[sheshe2]

8. Agreed. eom

[ncjustice80]

18. It is the rule.

Cops are all worthless pigs. Why would you think otherwise?

[Cali_Democrat]

2. They should open up the books

See how many blacks have been fucked over by this guy.

15 years as a pig....

[Cha]

6. Really!

[catbyte]

9. Pigs are much more noble creatures than that despicable waste of oxygen.

[Enthusiast]

17. Good point.

Every conviction should be retried or thrown out.

[AuntPatsy]

3. One down, a million more or less to go, I hate thinking about the damage and crimes he's been

guilty of that will never face the justice such crimes deserve, horrific to think this man ruled with power and hate against those that could not fight back for 15 years!

[Rose Siding]

4. How ugly.

They acted really fast. Still, you'd have to work really hard to convince me that none of his co-workers were aware of his hatred.

[Fairgo]

7. So telling

Important point, that. His actions are not an anomaly, they are a reflection of the workplace culture. His actions are actually part of the socialisation process. He was offering the other officer an opportunity to join him and his ilk in a communion of racist values. As a representative of the racist culture, there is also an implied coercion, to shore up the boundaries of the old white boys club. There is a ray of hope though, because she...and gender is important here...was brave enough to stand by the professed values of serve and protect. I want to know who has her back now. Who else will step up? That's the crux of the biscuit. I hope she represents the first green shoot in that moral wasteland.

[Cha]

5. Too damn stupid to serve. He's obviously thought the female cop to whom

he was texting was as racist an idiot as he was. So grateful he was busted!

Thanks Don

[SummerSnow]

10. just to be hired by another police department somewhere with the same views.

[Logical]

14. Yep, happen all the time! nt

[KinMd]

11. I'm guessing the female "freind" wasn't as much as a friend as he thought

[Liberal_in_LA]

12. wow. that's ugly. glad he resigned

[morningfog]

13. We Charge Genocide. Sadly, still relevant.

[Catherine Vincent]

15. Shakes my head

Someone like that should not be a cop.

[ncjustice80]

19. That is *all* cops bro. Powerhungry racist bullies.

[lpbk2713]

16. I've read where police depts don't hire the more intelligent applicants.

In this case, it really shows.