Friday, September 1, 2017 –
12:47pm
A Georgia police officer was caught on camera telling a female
motorist that the police “only shoot black people”.
Cobb County police lieutenant Greg Abbott had pulled over
the unidentified woman on suspicion of driving under the influence
before the dashcam captured his comments.
When the driver hesitates to comply with Abbott’s request
that she pick up her mobile phone on the grounds that she has “seen
way too many videos of cops”, the officer interrupts: “But you’re
not black”.
Video of "We only kill black people."
He continues: “We only kill black people. Yeah – we only
kill black people, right? All the videos you’ve seen, have you seen
white people get killed?”, seemingly in reference to recent
high-profile police shootings of unarmed black people.
The exchange took place on 10 July 2016, four days after
Philando Castile was shot seven times by a police officer during a
traffic stop in St Paul, Minnesota.
The footage was uncovered following a freedom of
information request from a local investigative reporter Mark
Winne.
On Friday, the department opened an internal review, which
has now concluded that begin proceedings should begin to dismiss
Abbott, who has been temporarily assigned to desk duty.
Police chief Mike Register confirmed that the department’s
internal review had recommended Abbott’s dismissal over the
comments, which he called “inexcusable and
inappropriate”.
However, “even as Chief Mike Register was on live TV announcing
the termination of Lt. Greg Abbott, Abbott was sending an email to
the county announcing his retirement,” the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
A lawyer representing Abbott said that the 28-year veteran
of the force had been trying to persuade the motorist to co-operate
and that the comments about shooting black people had to be taken
“in their totality”
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