Philadelphia's acting police commissioner has apologized after images surfaced of a racially insensitive T-shirt she wore in the 1990s, prompting calls for her resignation.
Philadelphia's acting police commissioner apologized this week after images surfaced of a racially insensitive T-shirt she wore in the 1990s, prompting calls for her resignation.
Coulter said she didn’t realize at the time that the shirt was an apparent reference to the highly publicized King beating, but said she was"profoundly sorry" for wearing it, nonetheless. She previously said the photo had been taken during a gathering with other officers at the Jersey Shore when she policing the city's 25th district, according to The Philadelphia Inquirer.
The findings -- published in a report by the Plain View Project, a civil rights watchdog -- resulted in 72 Philadelphia Police Department officers being placed on administrative leave in June. Several other officers resigned shortly after.
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