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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRamsey County corrections officers of color say they were barred from guarding Derek Chauvin
https://www.startribune.com/minority-officers-kept-from-monitoring-chauvin-in-jail/571391442/Eight minority Ramsey County corrections officers have filed discrimination charges with the states Department of Human Rights after they were barred from guarding or having any other contact with former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin last month.
Chauvin was booked at the county jail the same day he was charged with third-degree murder and manslaughter in the death of George Floyd.
As Chauvin arrived, all officers of color were ordered to a separate floor, and a supervisor told one of them that, because of their race, they would be a potential liability around Chauvin, according a copy of racial discrimination charges obtained by the Star Tribune.
I understood that the decision to segregate us had been made because we could not be trusted to carry out our work responsibilities professionally around the high-profile inmate solely because of the color of our skin, wrote one acting sergeant, who is black. I am not aware of a similar situation where white officers were segregated from an inmate.
Chauvin was booked at the county jail the same day he was charged with third-degree murder and manslaughter in the death of George Floyd.
As Chauvin arrived, all officers of color were ordered to a separate floor, and a supervisor told one of them that, because of their race, they would be a potential liability around Chauvin, according a copy of racial discrimination charges obtained by the Star Tribune.
I understood that the decision to segregate us had been made because we could not be trusted to carry out our work responsibilities professionally around the high-profile inmate solely because of the color of our skin, wrote one acting sergeant, who is black. I am not aware of a similar situation where white officers were segregated from an inmate.
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Ramsey County corrections officers of color say they were barred from guarding Derek Chauvin (Original Post)
WhiskeyGrinder
Jun 2020
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CaliforniaPeggy
(149,580 posts)1. This should never have happened; they should have been allowed.
Keeping them sequestered from him just reinforces the attitude that they're unreliable.
And nothing could be farther from the truth.
Blue Owl
(50,347 posts)2. The racism never stops
Meanwhile, I hope that piece of shit has a long, long, long, long, long, long, long, looooooong time to think about what he did...
stillcool
(32,626 posts)3. good for them
that's another institution that needs to get re-tooled. Cops, Justice System, Prison. All rotting at the core.
RockRaven
(14,958 posts)4. A reminder that "police reform" means not pedantically just police...
The "corrections" system is beyond fucked up too, especially including its administration.
WhiskeyGrinder
(22,318 posts)5. Exactly. Abolish it all.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)6. Not one bit surprised.
Nuf said. Tells you all you need to know about the Ramsey County Sherriff .