Cobb cop during traffic stop: Remember, we only shoot black people
Source: Atlanta Journal-Constitution
A Cobb County police lieutenant has been moved to administrative duty for making what the department deemed were inappropriate racial comments during a traffic stop last year.
Channel 2 Action News reported that its request for body camera footage of the incident prompted an internal investigation of Lt. Greg Abbott.
The footage shows a white female driver pulled over during a DUI traffic stop telling Abbott that she was scared to move her hands in order to get her cellphone because Ive just seen way too many videos of cops ...
But youre not black. Remember, we only shoot black people, the police veteran of nearly three decades can be heard saying. Yeah. We only kill black people, right? All the videos youve seen, have you seen the black people get killed?
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ExciteBike66
(2,393 posts)is that he was trying to de-escalate the situation by convincing the white woman he would not shoot her.
If it was me in that situation, the cop's statement would have made me even more pissed off.
BumRushDaShow
(129,877 posts)But it really really underscores what the stats indicate and even they know it.
WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)underpants
(182,988 posts)athenasatanjesus
(859 posts)defacto7
(13,485 posts)But jokes too close to the truth aren't jokes.
IronLionZion
(45,615 posts)Killing people is no laughing matter asshole
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)mshasta
(2,108 posts)This is just good old boys talk, the cop was being sarcastic, adding humor to diffuse a situation. He is not a racist, that is just the way they talk.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)even if you do not know them, that you can safely assume they think like you.
I run into it all the time down here.