Hamilton police chief, patrolman asked to resign after body cam footage of BLM protest surfaces

[WhiskeyGrinder]

https://www.wtvm.com/2021/01/29/hamilton-police-chief-patrolman-asked-resign-after-body-cam-black-lives-matter-protest-surfaces/

HAMILTON, Ga. (WTVM) - The Hamilton Chief of Police and one patrolman have been asked to resign or face termination after body cam footage of them at a Black Lives Matter protest last year surfaced earlier this week.

According to the Assistant to Hamilton Mayor Julie Brown, Chief Gene Allmond and Patrolman John Brooks have both been removed from their positions with the Hamilton Police Department. Chief Allmond reportedly resigned, while Patrolman Brooks was terminated.

It was believed that the body cameras that officers were wearing at the Black Lives Matter protest in Hamilton in June 2020 were not working properly.

Earlier this week, someone from another department went to use the cameras and discovered the memory was full, the mayor’s assistant confirmed.

The footage was full of the two of them using racial slurs and saying things like, "They furnished them a house, clothes to put on their back, all they had to do was fucking work. Now we give 'em all those things and don’t have to fucking work."

Video at the first link, transcript at this one: https://www.wrbl.com/news/local-news/hamilton-police-chief-sergeant-resign-after-bodycam-footage-showing-them-using-racial-slurs-surfaces

[brewens]

1. You hear white supremacist squalling about political correctness when they practice that

all the time when they know their being watched. If they are so against political correctness, they should use all their racial slurs full-time, no matter who's around, and see how that works out for them.

[Oldem]

11. i.e.

They're cowards.

[wcast]

2. All the people in charge say the same thing.

We’ve never had racial problems in the department before.must be a few bad apples. Ridiculous but it is amplified by the media.

[malaise]

3. Politicians, a variety on federal and state institutions and M$Greedia fueled that shit for decades

and don't forget the prison industrial complex

[judesedit]

4. That's funny. Most of the people on government assistance in red states

are white...from what I've read. And they're plenty lazy.

[d_r]

5. He's talking about slavery

[judesedit]

9. It sounds more current to me. What? The slaves didn't do enough for the fucking white trash

throughout history?

By the way, I'm white and ashamed of it when I see my Caucasian brothers and sisters acting like complete assholes. Somehow they think they deserve more than everyone else.

[d_r]

13. He is saying

Black folks aren't grateful enough. The first part

"They furnished them a house, clothes to put on their back, all they had to do was fucking work.

Is saying that white folks were doing slaves a favor.

The second part he switches to contemporary times and is saying that now we give them everything for free and they don't even have to work anymore like the slaves did.

He's a racist pos.

[judesedit]

17. I agree, agree they're racist and add more whites take advantage of this country's

hand outs, than any other. Even wealthy whites find ways to hide their money so they can milk and bilk the system. Mostly white. Thanks for explaining what your interpretation is. I learn things every day from posters on this site.

[d_r]

18. Me too /nt

[KS Toronado]

6. And they all own guns & MAGA hats.

[Collimator]

7. Much of the money that provides public assistance

to those living in red states comes from federal taxes paid by the economic activity of "coastal elite" blue states.

[judesedit]

10. You're right. The blue states contribute way more. Look at Kentucky.

It's like first on the list for handouts. So far down in education, healthcare, economy. And somehow Moscow Mitch has remained in power. Sounds mighty fishy to me. Sorry Kentuckians. You've been and are being hornswoggled. You need Stacey Abrams.

[Cousin Dupree]

8. Busted! Love when Karma does her thing.

[onetexan]

16. Right? Karma's a B, and in this case she serves up justice for these 2 deplorables.

[uponit7771]

12. Yeah put all that PD needs is some "diversity training" 🙄🙄🙄

[Iggo]

14. Asked to resign? Fire his fucking ass!

[BobTheSubgenius]

15. The idea that there are devices that can record sounds and images and preserve them

seems to befuddle so many of these morons.

[MagickMuffin]

19. And which White supremacists groups do they belong to?

Perhaps someone should investigate it.


KKK, Oaf Keepers, PB's

[WhiskeyGrinder]

21. The cops.

[MagickMuffin]

20. Partial transcript:

Transcript of the video, coarse language has been redacted/modified for our viewing audience, the video is taken from Sgt. Brooks’ body camera:

Brooks 00:15 – “There’s another one over here.”
Brooks 00:20 – “You want the uh….”
Brooks 01:02 – “Oh you got it, okay.”
Brooks 01:08 – “Well, I’ve been thinking about that [coughs] and we gotta be real damn careful because what I did as I turned the power on…flip it over…then I turned it all the way so that it’s all the way on but you gotta manually do it because if you put it on the other one it’s voice activated and the minute you say something it’ll start. It probably won’t fuckin’ work no way but [coughs] somebody starts to climb up there and can’t, neither me nor you, climb up there to get ’em down, and if they’re climbin’ up there and you f*****’ taze ’em, and they fall off and hit their head, and kill themselves, then you know, we’re f*****.”
Brooks 02:02 – “So I mean, I don’t know what you do. If you have the damn fire truck and hosed ’em off and they fell and hit their head they’d do the same thing…”
Brooks 02:12 – “But then you know if they get up there and the thing falls over on them and kills them somebody be sayin’ ‘well why didn’t you get them down?'”
Brooks 02:26 – “Did you see anybody on the [unclear] when you…?”
Allmond 02:28 – “No.”
Allmond 02:29 – “Well…”
Allmond 02:30 – “Seemed to me like nobody showed up.”
Brooks 02:33 – “Hell yeah…Well let me tell ya, I’ve seen two videos and I heard…you know who [unclear] is? He’s on Fox News all the time…he…”
Allmond 02:46 – “Oh! Oh Yeah!”
Brooks 02:47 – “He used to be Secret Service? He said ‘you know the…what they’re saying now is well you didn’t have to shoot ’em, it’s just a tazer,’ then how come when you taze a f****** n***** it’s like you done killed him 27 times? The guy’s running, he’s got the tazer in his hand, and you see him and he turns, and you see him fire the tazer at the officer?”
Allmond 03:11 – “But what would you have done if it had hit the officer? Go over there and get his gun and kill him?”
Brooks 03:14 – “Yeah. Yes.”
Allmond 03:15 – “Or…?”
Brooks 03:17 – “What if one of them projectiles woulda struck him in the eye? The act of him firing that tazer at an officer is an aggravated assault because he has not been trained in the proper use…An officer…if I go to taze somebody, I know to shoot low, I know what to do. He doesn’t know.”
Allmond 03:34 – “That’s exactly right… [unclear]”
Brooks 03:36 – “And that Mayor up there? Uh…she’s already fired the officer. And um without a hearing, and she’s pushing real hard. They say she’s now the front runner to be Joe Biden’s vice presidential candidate.”
Allmond 04:01 – “You’re kiddin’!”
Brooks 04:04 – “Because…if I had to f*** a n*****, I’d rather fuck the Mayor than Stacey Abrams.
Allmond 04:12 – [over static coming from radio] “Yes sir”
Dispatch 04:13 – [from radio] (unclear call sign) “…to Hamilton”
Brooks 04:15 – “Hamilton go ahead.”
Dispatch 04:16 – “…[unclear]…7996 Highway 116, 7996 Highway 116. It’s gonna be a…a 21-year-old male talking out of his [unclear] he also has a gun…”
Allmond 04:39 – “He has a what?”
Brooks 04:40 – “A gun.”
Dispatch 04:42 – [unclear]
Allmond 04:43 – “Where’s that at?”
Brooks 04:45 – “7996? That ain’t in Hamilton.”
Allmond 04:49 – “No”
Brooks 04:54 – “Cuz Roberts is 13, well you’re, uh, no, that ain’t in Hamilton. [coughs]…Hamilton 2 dispatch…”
HamiltonPD 05:06 [radio in hand] “Hamilton 2”
Brooks 05:11 – “We’ll be en route if you need us but I don’t believe the 7900 block is going to be in the city.”
[static]
Brooks 05:21 – “It’s a Hamilton mailing address.”
Dispatch 05:25 – “32 and 27…y’all still in Hamilton?”
Brooks 05:29 – “Yeah…but they don’t check…”
Dispatch 05:34 – “21 [unclear] male…from earlier, possibly [talked over by A]”
Brooks 05:39 – “If they would have went out there earlier then they know it ain’t ours.
Dispatch 05:43 – “…116…he’s got a gun…[unclear]…just talking out of his head…”

Allmond 06:13 – [on the phone] “Hey sweetie, this is HAmilton 1, I’m 10-8. We’re probably going to be tied up with that protest that’s supposed to start in a few minutes. Just thought I’d let you know. Okay? Thank you. Bye.” Brooks 06:38 – “Man if we get there and there’s nothing to it, just, you know, some little bullshit call, I mean hell yeah we can answer it but we, you know we can’t…”
Allmond 06:43 – We can’t get nothing that’s going to tie us up…”
Brooks 06:44 – “Hell no.”
Allmond 06:49 – “Fuck…Protests, son of a bitch what is the matter with these fucking people? I don’t own no slaves. My folks didn’t own no slaves…”
Brooks 07:01 – “Hey…hey…”
Allmond 07:03 – “You know what are we talking about…? 200 fucking years ago?”
Brooks 07:06 – “Hey, I’ve been doing uh…I do a lot of stuff on my family history on My Ancestry…and you know we’re all from up north, but there was a small branch of the family that lived in Virginia, which before the Civil War, what is West Virginia, was Virginia. And I did find evidence of some slave ownin’ part of my family. Even though we’re from Ohio and didn’t–nobody up there. But I’ll tell ya, looking at Chris’s family? Holy shit! Man let me tell you what…”