Fired NYPD discrimination investigator shared racist rants online, records show
James Kobel used his work laptop and iPad to make the disturbing racial remarks
Former NYPD Deputy Inspector
James Kobel attempted to cover up his racist rants by lying on several occasions to investigators. According to the
NY Daily News, it was recently discovered that he used his work laptop and iPad to make disturbing racial remarks.
Kobel, who tried to retire before he was fired back in February, made hundreds of racist statements targeting public figures and mocked those who were killed due to police violence.
“Yes, the urban ghetto types. 25,000 years of evolution continues to elude these poor unfortunate creatures,” Kobel wrote in one post. “If they can’t smoke it, drink it, f k it or steal it, these savages destroy it,” he wrote in another.
NYPD official is fired after he made racist, anti-Semitic and homophobic posts on message board
Deputy Inspector James Francis Kobel, a high-ranking official with the New York Police Department, has been fired, according to a law enforcement official with knowledge of the matter, following an internal disciplinary process after a string of racist, anti-Semitic and homophobic posts he made on the online message board Rant.
“The NYPD carried out a thorough investigation of this matter,” an NYPD spokesperson said when asked about Kobel. “His misconduct was so egregious and so contradicted the values of this department that ultimate accountability was essential.”
An NYPD official is suspended without pay after being connected to racists posts on a message board
Updated 9:36 PM ET, Wed January 13, 2021
James Francis Kobel has been suspended without pay and is now the subject of an internal disciplinary process after a string of racist, anti-Semitic and homophobic posts, the NYPD confirmed. (CNN)A high-ranking official with the New York Police Department has been suspended without pay and is now the subject of an internal disciplinary process after a string of racist, anti-Semitic and homophobic posts, the NYPD confirmed.
Late last year, an investigation by the City Council connected Deputy Inspector James Francis Kobel to a user under the name Clouseau. Under that identity, he routinely posted offensive messages on a public law enforcement message board attacking Black people, Muslims, the Hasidic Jewish community and others with extremely derogatory language, according to a draft report from the New York City Council Oversight and Inv