Officer to woman during traffic stop: 'We only ? black people
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A Cobb County police lieutenant has been moved to administrative duty for making what the department deemed were “inappropriate racial comments” during a traffic stop last year.
Channel 2 Action News reported that its request for body camera footage of the incident prompted an internal investigation of Lt. Greg Abbott.
The footage shows a white female driver pulled over during a DUI traffic stop telling Abbott that she was scared to move her hands in order to get her cellphone because “I’ve just seen way too many videos of cops ... ”
At that point, she is cut off by Abbott.
“But you’re not black. Remember, we only shoot black people,” the police veteran of nearly three decades can be heard saying. “Yeah. We only ? black people, right? All the videos you’ve seen, have you seen the black people get killed?”
The footage is from July 2016, before Mike Register took over as chief of Cobb police.
He said that Abbott will remain on administrative duty pending the outcome of the investigation, for which he didn’t give a timeline.
A statement Wednesday from the department said Register just found out about the recording Friday.
No matter what context it was said, it shouldn’t have been said,” Register told Channel 2.
This was also before a study by the International Association of Chiefs of Police ordered the department to address public perceptions of racism and discriminatory policing.
Suri Chadha Jimenez, who is representing the driver in the case, said he thinks the officer was being sarcastic after the woman “gave him some lip.”
“It makes you cringe when you hear it. It’s unacceptable,” Jimenez said.
Lance LoRusso, Abbott’s attorney, gave the station this statement:
“Lt. Greg Abbott is a highly respected 28-year veteran of the Cobb County Police Department. He is cooperating with the department's internal investigation and will continue to do so. His comments must be observed in their totality to understand their context.
He was attempting to de-escalate a situation involving an uncooperative passenger. In context, his comments were clearly aimed at attempting to gain compliance by using the passenger’s own statements and reasoning to avoid making an arrest.”
In the police statement, Cobb County commission chairman Mike Boyce is quoted as saying: “I have seen the video and obviously have great concerns. I find the comments on the video repugnant and offensive beyond measure.”
This comes a day after the department released information about an officer-involved shooting that injured a 16-year-old’s upper thigh. The shooting was deemed justifiable by a grand jury.
“We are going to keep going forward to make sure we, as a police department, service the community in a most professional way. All segments of the community,” Register said.
http://www.ajc.com/news/local/cobb-cop-during-traffic-stop-remember-only-shoot-black-people/I3RAuy3GVMmoM4WsXBGN7H/
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Bad humour based in truth
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Who gives a ? what context it was said in?
...before you shoe shufflers come in here to post about both sides let me be the first to call you a munkee ass ? !! -
You don't get to make jokes like that at work when your job is no joking matter.
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Why they using Chance the Rapper as target practice though? He like the most friendly rapper out.
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Is it just me or did the narrator of that video sound like he was on speed? Like, why is he talking that fast ?
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silverfoxx wrote: »Why they using Chance the Rapper as target practice though? He like the most friendly rapper out.
Still ? -
obnoxiouslyfresh wrote: »Is it just me or did the narrator of that video sound like he was on speed? Like, why is he talking that fast ?
Auctioneer voice -
My brother lives in Marietta. Cobb County Cops have been seen serving warrants in NYC! Very powerful police department. Cobb County is known as the " Jewel County" of GA.
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Who gives a ? what context it was said in?
...before you shoe shufflers come in here to post about both sides let me be the first to call you a munkee ass ? !!
I'm so glad that ? "A talented one" is perma banned. -
silverfoxx wrote: »Why they using Chance the Rapper as target practice though? He like the most friendly rapper out.
They use black people as target practice in a lot of Scandinavian countries. They don't see anything wrong with it.
But black people are like 1% of the population over there and are responsible for 0% of the crimes. -
? ass cracka
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You know ? is ? up when cops think the best way to get whites to comply is to tell them they are safe because they aren't black.
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Busta Carmichael wrote: »
That cuckold @Undefeatable is 'a talented one'. And if he isn't, then there's way too many ? ? that think like him. -
but all lives matter right?
what about blue lives?
what about the anthem and respecting police/military
in a ? up way he simply confirmed what we all knew and what many white ppl choice to ignore.
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silverfoxx wrote: »Why they using Chance the Rapper as target practice though? He like the most friendly rapper out.
That ? is more harmless than a gnat. I thought white people liked him? Wasn't he getting kit kat money? -
heard about this this morning on the breakfast club
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Like Water wrote: »Busta Carmichael wrote: »
That cuckold @Undefeatable is 'a talented one'. And if he isn't, then there's way too many ? ? that think like him.
yeh thats that ? ass ? ! -
Before the advent of video cameras and even phone cameras and the Internet... you wonder what the numbers were
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he's doing what a cop does.nothing should surprise you at all
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Before the advent of video cameras and even phone cameras and the Internet... you wonder what the numbers were
The same. I honestly don't think the cams have changed much at all. We've already seen even when the cops are caught, they don't face punishment, so why they change their behavior. They clearly haven't and won't, at least, not until there are consequences. And there won't be consequences as long as we have a president and justice department who are applauding this kinda ? . -
You don't get to make jokes like that at work when your job is no joking matter.
Remember a cops job is very hard, isn't that 15th most difficult job
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Damn. Been eyeing a job in Kennesaw too
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