Black Humor
After a traffic stop in Cobb County, Ga., the driver was arrested for drunk driving. His passenger told Lt. Greg Abbott she was afraid to reach for her phone to make a call — “I’ve just seen way too many videos of cops—” she began, but Abbott cut her off. “But you’re not black,” he told her. “Remember, we only shoot black people.” Wait, what? “Yeah. We only kill black people, right? All the videos you’ve seen, have you seen the black people get killed?” The remarks by the officer were recorded by a police body camera, and came to light when the driver retained a lawyer to defend him in the case, and the lawyer got copies of the recordings as evidence. Police Chief Mike Register says Abbott, a 28-year police veteran, has been fired. (RC/Atlanta Journal-Constitution) ...Still, that’s progress: he called them “people”!Original Publication Date: 10 September 2017
This story is in True’s book collections, in Volume 24.
This story is in True’s book collections, in Volume 24.
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