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Georgia chief, police sergeant caught on camera making racist, sexist remarks Reaction to Hamilton police chief, officer being fired Hamilton city leaders discuss their plans to move forward after the Hamilton police chief and another officer were fired for a racially-charged recorded conversation. The two men didn’t think the body cameras were working when they made their remarks ahead of a scheduled Black Lives Matter march. It probably won’t f -ing work anyway, former Police Chief Gene Allmond is heard saying on body camera. Allmond and Sgt. John Brooks were both caught on camera making jaw-dropping remarks. How come when you use a Taser on a f -ing n - it’s like you’ve killed him 27 times? the chief asked Brooks in the video. ....
Ex-officers could face criminal charges over racist video February 3, 2021 GMT HAMILTON, Ga. (AP) A western Georgia prosecutor says he will seek to indict a former police chief and officer for violating their oaths of office after body camera footage showed them making racists comments before a Black Lives Matter march in June. Hamilton Chief Gene Allmond resigned and Sgt. John Brooks was fired Jan. 25 after a part-time city employee found the footage while checking the body cameras and showed it to officials in the town north of Columbus. The video shows the two using racial slurs, speaking negatively about Blacks and about slavery, among other things. ....
Georgia Police Chief Asked To Resign After Flagrantly Racist Conversation With Cop Caught On Body Cam City officials had trouble watching the footage, in which the officer says n r and trivializes Black lives. February 02, 2021 at 3:56 pm Two members of a Georgia police department have had their positions vacated after they were recorded on body cam having a racist and demeaning conversation about Black people, slavery and voting rights activist Stacey Abrams. In June, Hamilton police chief Gene Allmond and officer John Brooks were speaking before a Black Lives Matter protest while the body cameras they thought were inactive, documented their racist banter, local ABC-affiliate WTVM9 reported. Following the video’s exposure, Allmond resigned and Brooks was terminated on Wednesday. ....
Image zoom | Credit: A Georgia police chief and a department patrolman have lost their jobs after being recorded engaging in racist talk outside of the Hamilton police station as they prepared for a Black Lives Matter protest. The recording, posted by Columbus TV station WTVM, captures Hamilton Police Chief Gene Allmond and patrolman John Brooks in conversation last June, documented on video by a body camera worn by Brooks, according to the station. Get push notifications with news, features and more. + Follow Following You ll get the latest updates on this topic in your browser notifications. Lewd comments by Brooks about whom he d rather have sex with Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms or former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams, both of whom are Black included a racial slur. ....