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June 26, 2020

NC Police Dept. Fires Officers Caught on Tape Discussing "Slaughtering" Black Residents
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In Wilmington, North Carolina, three veteran police officers have been
fired for misconduct after accidentally recording themselves talking
about killing Black residents. One officer said, "We are just going to
go out and start slaughtering" them - using the N-word to describe Black
people. He went on to say, "I can't wait. God, I can't wait." The same
officer said he felt society needed a civil war to "wipe them off the
f-ing map." The department learned about the comments after the officers
accidentally recorded their own phone conversations in a patrol car. The
firings were announced by the city's new police chief, Donny Williams,
the first African American to ever hold the position. He just took the
post this week.

Wilmington, North Carolina, was the scene of a violent massacre in 1898,
when heavily armed white supremacists launched a coup to topple the
city's biracial government. They burned down Black businesses, including
the local African American newspaper. As many as 300 African Americans
were killed. A former Confederate Army officer who helped lead the coup
then took over as Wilmington's new mayor.


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