A San Jose, California, police officer is “no longer employed” with the police department after sending a series of racially biased, “disgusting” messages, according to a news release from San Jose Police Chief Anthony Mata.

“I hate Black people,” one of the messages read, which were discovered during an unrelated investigation into the shooting of a 20-year-old college student.

  • Omega@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    You have to be only mostly racist. Like say things about black people. Or use dog whistles saying “thugs”. Or just assault a black person and deny racism had anything to do with it.

    You can’t just bluntly say you hate black people. I mean, they probably can most of the time. But maybe this was like the 20th time and it was getting annoying.