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TexasTowelie

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Sun Jun 30, 2019, 04:23 AM Jun 2019

Chicago cop's Obama N-word slur ends up going unpunished

“Oh, yeah, some n----- is coming to town.”

That’s what Sgt. Jack Axium, a white Chicago police officer, said. There’s no dispute about that.

Axium was amid a group of cops preparing for an Oct. 27, 2015, visit by President Barack Obama to see LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers play the Bulls at the United Center.

The comment outraged another cop, who is biracial and who filed a complaint against Axium.

Axium quickly admitted making the incendiary statement, later saying it was “in the heat of the moment.”

Read more: https://chicago.suntimes.com/2019/6/28/18759928/jack-axium-n-word-barack-obama-chicago-police-department-racial-slur

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