Photo shows Chicago police officers posing with black man wearing antlers

[Liberal_in_LA]

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The photo shows two white Chicago police officers wielding guns and kneeling next to a black man who is wearing deer antlers on his head while he lays with his stomach to the ground.

The racially charged image prompted the firing of Chicago Police Detective Timothy McDermott well before the photo went public Tuesday, when it was published by the Chicago Sun-Times. The other officer pictured, Jerome Finnigan, had long been terminated from the department, and in 2011 was sentenced to 12 years in federal prison on income tax evasion and murder-for-hire scheme charges.

“This picture is disgusting, and the despicable actions of these two former officers have no place in our police department or in our society,” Chicago Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy said in a statement Wednesday.

[Analysis: Fatal shootings by on-duty police officers]

The Chicago Police Department first learned of the photo in 2013. McCarthy said he moved to fire McDermott as soon as he learned of the photo and that he would have fired Finnigan had the former officer still been working for the department.

McDermott is now fighting his firing in court, the Sun-Times reported.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2015/05/27/photo-shows-chicago-police-officers-posing-with-black-man-wearing-antlers/

[Faux pas]

1. If I was a 'believer'

I'd say OMG. Since I'm not a 'believer', I'll say what fresh hell is this?! A**holes.

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2. One can tell this is an old photo.

There are no automatic weapons.