SFPD sergeant suspended for alleged sexual reference, ‘Negro boys’ comment

[KamaAina]

http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/SFPD-sergeant-suspended-for-alleged-sexual-7462255.php

A San Francisco police sergeant who faces discipline and possible termination after two Bayview Station colleagues reported he had used offensive language allegedly said he had to “chase Negro boys around,” according to a source familiar with the internal affairs investigation.

In a separate incident, after a female officer asked the sergeant why he wasn’t carrying his gun, he purportedly made a sexual reference, saying, “I got a big gun for you,” said the source, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the details of the internal investigation are not public....

In a written statement, department officials said the officer had used inappropriate language with “racial and sexual undertones” in the “presence of two other employees,” and that his case had been forwarded to the city Police Commission “with a recommendation for discipline up to and including termination.”...

“It is alarming that these incidents continue to occur within the San Francisco Police Department,” wrote Montgomery Singleton, the vice president of Officers for Justice. “It is apparent that incidents of bigotry are still endemic within the Police Department. The Officers for Justice demands San Francisco Police Department follow all established laws and policies applicable. We also demand that San Francisco Police Department be transparent and accountable to the citizens of San Francisco.”