These are the racially charged e-mails that got 3 Ferguson police and court officials fired

[DonViejo]

Source: Washington Post

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These e-mails were among the evidence presented by the Justice Department in a report released this year that concluded that racism pervaded the Ferguson Police Department. The report cited an analysis of those ticketed and arrested as well as anecdotal evidence about when and why Ferguson police officers use force on residents.

The e-mails — all sent between 2008 and 2011 — are primarily e-mail forwards containing insensitive and offensive jokes. One of the e-mails, sent by Twitty to both men as well as a third recipient with the subject line “Insensitive One Liners,” included the lines: “There’s a new Muslim clothing shop that opened in our shopping center, but they threw me out after I asked if I could look at some of the bomber jackets.”

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In a message dated Tuesday, April 19, 2011, Twitty forwarded a message titled “Very Rare Photo” that included an image of former president Ronald Reagan feeding a baby monkey. Beneath the photo is the caption: “Rare photo of Ronald Reagan babysitting Barack Obama in early 1962.”

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Another e-mail Twitty sent both men on March 1, 2010, included a short story titled “Leroy’s last child support payment.”



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[HassleCat]

1. Surprised Me

I was expecting something else. I thought maybe the cops had used the e-mail system to tell each other to watch out for black kids wearing hoodies, something like that. I didn't think they were stupid enough to circulate racist jokes and cartoons. A friend of mine is a cop in a major US city, and he says it's a good thing criminals are stupid, because most cops are not very bright. I guess he's right.

[DonViejo]

2. If you can stomach it, hit the link to the article and read the rest of the disgusting crap. eom

[cstanleytech]

3. From what I have heard alot of police departments actually try not to hire

anyone who is to intelligent which if you think about it could be why this is such a problem around the country.
Take my younger brother for example, he is borderline mentally retarded and growing up he never said one racists word about someone because of their skin color until he began hanging around some racist assholes who he thinks are his friends and now he spouts alot of the same BS they do so a similar thing could be happening with the police so maybe police need to start hiring people smart enough not to fall for the stupid shit racists believe in?

[dixiegrrrrl]

6. Police Dept. do not want to hire very bright cops, actually.

There was a post about that sometime back here on DU, that a high IQ was seen to be detrimental for the job.
Which means, the guys that get promoted to running the Dept. are of average IQ.
Which explains a whole lot.

[NJCher]

4. those "jokes" are old

I'm quite sure I've seen these "jokes" in other newspaper articles and for which racists have gotten in trouble--??!!

I'm pretty sure it's too much to ask for racists to be original.




Cher

[cosmicone]

5. The jokes themselves are ubiquitous

We have all heard all sorts of ethnic jokes and some of us have even told them.

What is abhorrent here is that they were sent on official time, on official equipment by people who are supposed to serve the public. That is what makes the "jokes" no longer jokes but racism.