These racist and violent statements have material consequences, as police officers in departments across the country routinely kill Black people with impunity.
“We are just going to go out and start slaughtering them,” said Piner, who added that he planned to buy assault rifles. “Wipe ‘em off the f------ map. That’ll put 'em back about four or five generations.” Their conversation was made public after a sergeant found the footage while conducting routine video reviews. After alerting a superior, an internal investigation was underway.
“When you realize racism is endemic in an industry predicated on the surveillance of Black bodies, you also realize that these ‘few bad actors’ are performing just as their roles were intended,”In Wilmington, despite the clearly anti-Black sentiments of the three officers being caught on video, they all denied being racist, and pointed to “the stress of today’s law enforcement environment” as the reason for their conversations.
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