Florida police chief loses job teaching ethics over racist emails made public. [View All]

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At least he still has his job as police chief in Wilton Manors, Florida. Florida blogger, The Reid Report, has some of the emails at her blog site. I will not post any of them, as the content is pretty ugly.

Reid Report exclusive. The Chief Perez Emails

The Wilton Manors, Florida police chief whose official email account was used to send racist, offensive emails, some directed at President Barack Obama, escaped accountability again last night, as he failed to show up for a city council meeting where the issue of his conduct was then not raised. In an exclusive to The Reid Report, reporter Elgin Jones of the South Florida Times (read his original report here) has provided TRR with some of the emails that could yet cost Chief Richard Perez his job.

In one of the emails, sent to two city employees on July 23rd, it is implied that President Obama’s father was a canine, and which goes after his inter-racial background.

The emails are posted at her website.

The South Florida Times posts that Chief Perez lost his job teaching ethics to police recruits as a result of these emails.

Offensive Emails Get Police Chief Sacked from Teaching Job

Offensive e-mails that have been circulated within the Wilton Manors police department have led to the police chief being put on hiatus from his teaching job at the police academy.

“Wilton Manors Police Chief Richard Perez is currently not on the teaching schedule of the Institute of Public Safety and will not be placed on the schedule until all outstanding issues have been resolved,” said Rivka Spiro, media relations specialist for Broward College, where the academy is housed.

The decision not to place Perez on the teaching schedule was made Saturday, Sept. 11, a day after the South Florida Times broke the story about the e-mails sent from Perez’s city e-mail account. Perez could not be reached for comment and has not responded to phone calls and questions sent by e-mail. He has not indicated if he sent the controversial e-mails or if someone improperly accessed his account.

For several years, Perez has moonlighted at the college’s Institute of Public Safety, which includes the police academy. Perez is certified to teach by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement’s Criminal Justice Standards and Training Commission, on whose board he also sits as chairman. He earned $32.50 per hour to teach several courses at the academy, including ethics.