'BRPD is not the only Louisiana law enforcement agency we have sent public records requests to, nor the only one where we have found officers using slurs,' attorney William Most revealed to Newsweek.
Police officers stand in front of an East Baton Rouge police car with bullet holes following the shooting of three police officers on July 17, 2016, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Records made public today reveal Baton Rouge officers used and sympathized with racist language.A public records request has revealed 10 pages of emails in which Baton Rouge, Louisiana police officers used racist language, including the n-word, to describe constituents and their colleagues.
In the first exchange, dated August 15, 2014, and redacted by the Baton Rouge Parish public records office, a Baton Rouge officer, denoted by a brgov.com email address, sent an email to a Louisiana National Guard employee expressing frustration over what sounds like a professional setback. The two-sentence email concludes"F*cking [n-word]"
After Most alerted Baton Rouge Police Chief Murphy Paul to the archived messages in July, the department took action, McKneely said,"They found some situations in which the n-word was used. After we found out we did an internal investigation on it. The officer received a slight disciplinary action."action entailed, McKneely described it as"like a conference worksheet." The officers involved were also asked to attend a"voluntary but highly suggested" training.
The Baton Rouge Police Department has previously found itself on the wrong side of history on more than one occasion. In 1961, the United States Supreme Court ruled against the department in the civil rights caseFollowing Hurricane Katrina 2005, police troopers from Michigan and New Mexico deployed to Louisiana refused to work with Baton Rouge officers after just three days, after witnessing local police"actions that were an affront to their sense of dignity and respect.
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