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October 8, 2013

Police Officer Who Called Shooting Victim Kenneth Chamberlain a Racial Slur Is Fired 
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In New York, a White Plains police officer who used a racial slur
against elderly Marine veteran Kenneth Chamberlain Sr. shortly before
police shot Chamberlain dead in his own home in 2011 has been fired.
Public Safety Commissioner David Chong did not say why he fired Officer
Steven Hart, who was suspended last year. Hart had also been named as a
defendant in a separate police brutality lawsuit stemming from an
earlier incident. He called Chamberlain the "n" word after police
arrived at Chamberlain's apartment when he accidentally triggered his
medical alert pendant. Police mocked Chamberlain, banged on his window,
broke down his door, tasered him and then shot him dead. Chamberlain's
son, Kenneth Chamberlain Jr., told the Journal News Hart's firing was "a
small, but significant step in getting justice for the murder of my
father."

 

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