Police officer who made mentally ill black man ‘dance like a chimp’ removed from duty

[RandySF]

The Grosse Pointe Park, Michigan police officer who allegedly filmed himself humiliating a mentally challenged black man has been removed from active duty and is expected to face disciplinary charges next week.

The video, which the unnamed officer posted on various social media sites, allegedly shows the officer demanding a mentally challenged black man to “dance like a chimp.”

It is unclear whether the unnamed officer is solely responsible for the video, or if other officers were involved. The Grosse Pointe Park Police Department did inform its officers that they are prohibited from posting videos from personal cell phones on social media while on duty.

City officials declined to comment on the investigation until it concluded, but a public relations expert hired by the police department apologized on its behalf late last week.

“My friends, my neighbors and residents are all appalled by what has occurred,” Greg Bowens said. “This is not a true representation of who we are in Grosse Pointe Park. We are working very hard at getting to the bottom of it.”


http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/11/24/police-officer-who-humiliated-mentally-ill-man-removed-from-duty/

[mythology]

1. Hopefully the disciplinary actions end in termination and loss of any pension built up

Additionally, why the blue hell did the police department need to hire a PR firm? Apologize, remove the cop in question, and any others involved from the department and institute some reforms to make sure that it's known by the rest of the department this isn't tolerated.

[Liberal_in_LA]

7. +10000

[jsr]

2. The police have morphed into a sadistic occupying force

whose salaries and benefits are paid for by the occupied.

[msanthrope]

3. What the mutherfuckin' wrong shit is wrong with you that you have to do that???? Seriously???

What the fuck is so fuckin' wrong in your godamn life you actually do shit like that???

I don't understand cops sometimes.

[freshwest]

5. It ain't just cops. This happens to the mentally challenged more than others.

[Phlem]

4. That's all!?

NO F'ing Way!

he needs to ‘dance like a chimp’ in front of the nation on camera and maybe, maybe he keeps is job!

These Mother Fuckers need a heaping dose of their own medicine.



-p

[TreasonousBastard]

6. What's the bottom they have to get to? The cop pulled...

an old racist trick out of the bag and bojangled not only a black guy, but one who might not have known what was going on.

No matter how you cut it, it was a shit thing to do and the asshole should be hung out to dry.

The "real problem" might be that the whole department was laughing its collective ass off at this thing, including the chief, so you'd have to get rid of the whole force.

(If so, so be it...)

[tblue37]

8. Bet it is, though--

"a true representation" of them, or at least of more than a few of them.

[etherealtruth]

9. From the article

"they are prohibited from posting videos from personal cell phones on social media while on duty" .... I am inclined to think this is the issue for the GPP police. It's not that he acted in a sub-human way, it is that he posted it on social media.