Police chief, officer under fire after bodycam video surfaces with racial slurs, explicit language

[groundloop]

Source: ABC News

A police chief and an officer in Hamilton, Georgia, are out from their positions after video surfaced of comments both are seen making at a Black Lives Matter protest, ABC News affiliate WTVM reported.

Hamilton Police Department Chief Gene Allmond is reported to have resigned and Patrolman John Brooks was terminated according to the assistant to the Hamilton mayor, Julie Brown, WTVM reported.

Both officers were wearing bodycams at a BLM protest in Hamilton in June 2020. The video has since been made public.

In the video, a man speaking off-camera and a man on-camera make several comments with racial slurs and explicit language.



Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/07/politics/elaine-chao-cabinet-resignation-trump/index.html

[50 Shades Of Blue]

1. Wow, that is shocking that they suffered any consequences.

[wryter2000]

2. Don't worry

They'll be hired by some other police department.

[cstanleytech]

5. Probably in a state with a large majority of Trump supporters.

[Dan]

3. I have always thought

that one way to stop a lot of this is (1) After a second offense, make the officer in question pay for his own liability insurance; (2) Ensure that an officer that resigns and goes to another department - ensure that the liability for insurance continues and (3) do not let the Department or Union provide some type of sweetheart deal so that the liability is avoided. Oh, ensure that the liability premiums are 5X, then 10X, 20X the cost of regular liability that they pay for officers. And ensure that the community in question is aware of the record of the officers that they are hiring within their police departments.

[brush]

4. That link leads to a story of Elaine Chao resigning right after the riot, noting about the OP subjec

[BumRushDaShow]

8. Here's the ABC News link

https://abcnews.go.com/US/police-chief-officer-fire-bodycam-video-surfaces-racial/story?id=75582829

(I've done that before - too many stories opened and copy the wrong link )

[Evolve Dammit]

6. There's always Piggly-Wiggley or Winn-Dixie security. Or check-out/ cart detail....

[Nitram]

7. We need to make all body cam footage available to the public on request, and we must fine or fire

cops who don't wear or turn on their cams.

[Bengus81]

9. Funny how police are the ones who demanded body cameras to take baseless blame off of them

NOW they have them and they're either somehow "turned off" of it takes a Supreme Court decision to get the damn video out of them.

[marble falls]

10. Link? ...

https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/police-chief-officer-under-fire-211439227.html

[mdbl]

11. thanks for the link