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NAUGATUCK, CONNECTICUT: Multiple investigations have been opened after racist comments made by the teenage daughter of Naugatuck Police Chief, Steve Hunt, emerged on social media prompting public condemnations and an apology statement from Hunt and his wife, Johnna Minicucci Hunt, who is the vice principal of Naugatuck High School, where students are planning a walkout on Tuesday, January 26, in response to the posts.
The Snapchat posts sent to the teen's former friend, Jake Stankiewicz, were made public by the latter after he came across them in his iCloud backup. In one post, the teen — then 13 or 14 years old — wrote, “I’ll make my dad drive with lights and sirens and if we see any Black people we will shoot them." In another, the teen had written, "My dad is now officially police chief so that means he’s more advanced in shooting Black people then he was just a couple minutes ago." Both messages appeared alongside blurred images of Hunt's daughter.