The small metropolis of Vincent in Alabama has voted to disband its police pressure after the revelation of racist textual content messages exchanged between two of its officers.
Within the alternate, which just lately surfaced on social media, one person named “752” requested: “What do y’all name a pregnant slave?” To this, one one that isn't identifiable via the textual content, responded with query marks.
The person named 752 then responded: “BOGO Purchase one, get one free.”
The messages had been first reported by AL.com on Tuesday, the identical day the Vincent metropolis council met to determine on the difficulty.
Earlier on Tuesday, the police chief, James Srygley, had mentioned the division had “performed an inside investigation” and that they'd taken “acceptable disciplinary motion”.
However on Thursday, Srygley himself was recognized as one of many officers who was terminated. Assistant chief John L Goss was additionally terminated, and the town council then voted to disband the entire division.
On Friday, the sheriff’s workplace of Shelby county mentioned in an announcement they “condemn these actions” and their workplace was serving to the residents with emergency regulation enforcement service.
The inhabitants of the city, south-east of Birmingham, is about 2,000 as of 2021, with fewer than 500 African Individuals, and solely eight Hispanic individuals.
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