Cobb cop during traffic stop: Remember, we only shoot black people

[Calista241]

Source: Atlanta Journal-Constitution

A Cobb County police lieutenant has been moved to administrative duty for making what the department deemed were “inappropriate racial comments” during a traffic stop last year.

Channel 2 Action News reported that its request for body camera footage of the incident prompted an internal investigation of Lt. Greg Abbott.

The footage shows a white female driver pulled over during a DUI traffic stop telling Abbott that she was scared to move her hands in order to get her cellphone because “I’ve just seen way too many videos of cops ... ”

“But you’re not black. Remember, we only shoot black people,” the police veteran of nearly three decades can be heard saying. “Yeah. We only kill black people, right? All the videos you’ve seen, have you seen the black people get killed?”

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[ExciteBike66]

1. The cop's explanation, through his lawyer...

is that he was trying to de-escalate the situation by convincing the white woman he would not shoot her.

If it was me in that situation, the cop's statement would have made me even more pissed off.

[BumRushDaShow]

2. Sounds like he was being facetious and sarcastic

But it really really underscores what the stats indicate and even they know it.

[WinkyDink]

3. Oh, it was sarcasm. Too bad it meant, "But we shoot White people, too!"

[underpants]

4. In every joke there is some truth

[athenasatanjesus]

9. Yes but that doesn't make the joke teller responsible for that truth.

[defacto7]

6. In every good joke there's a grain of truth

But jokes too close to the truth aren't jokes.

[IronLionZion]

5. Cops should have said that to Justine Ruszczyk

Killing people is no laughing matter asshole

[Blue_Tires]

7. Up in Cobb I have no doubt that's true...

[mshasta]

8. just good old boys talk

This is just good old boys talk, the cop was being sarcastic, adding humor to diffuse a situation. He is not a racist, that is just the way they talk.

[dixiegrrrrl]

10. There is an assumption that it's ok to talk that way to other whites

even if you do not know them, that you can safely assume they think like you.
I run into it all the time down here.