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Fri Oct 20, 2017, 10:48 AM Oct 2017

Ocoee police: Officer fired for using racial slur

A longtime Ocoee police officer has been fired after he was accused of using a racial slur during a conversation with a fellow employee, the department announced Thursday night.

Lt. William Wagner used the “n-word” while talking with Officer Bruce Riggins in the Police Department parking lot on Sept. 26, according to an internal affairs investigation.

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During the September conversation, the officers were discussing Hurricane Irma when Wagner showed Riggins photographs of his damaged home on his phone. Riggins said Wagner called it “his n----- house.”

Riggins said Wagner apologized for the comment, and Riggins told a corporal and a sergeant about the conversation.


http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/breaking-news/os-william-wagner-ocoee-police-racial-slur-20171019-story.html

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Ocoee police: Officer fired for using racial slur (Original Post) Baitball Blogger Oct 2017 OP
"I didn't say it in a racial term. I said it in a socioeconomic term." dalton99a Oct 2017 #1
A Lt ? Corgigal Oct 2017 #2
He'll Be A Cop, On Another Police Force. . . ProfessorGAC Oct 2017 #3
What does that even mean, "n***er house?" ExciteBike66 Oct 2017 #4
Well, I suspect the opposite of that is what they mean when they say, Baitball Blogger Oct 2017 #5

Baitball Blogger

(46,755 posts)
5. Well, I suspect the opposite of that is what they mean when they say,
Fri Oct 20, 2017, 12:56 PM
Oct 2017

"Now we're living like white people."

First time I heard it was from a friend who was a Democrat who, unfortunately, went through a strange transformation when she worked for the County Chamber of Commerce. Almost unrecognizable after 9/11.

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