Mississippi police chief fired after leaked audio captured racist rant, him bragging about killing 13 people

 

Mississippi police chief fired after leaked audio captured racist rant, him bragging about killing 13 people Former Lexington Police Department Chief Sam Dobbins was fired Wednesday after the city's board of aldermen voted to oust him in a session that lasted more than an hour, WLBT reported.

The vote came after a former officer leaked a recording of a conversation he had with the chief in April. The officer, Robert Lee Hooker, gave the secretly recorded audio to JULIAN, a civil rights and international human rights organization, which released it to the media — riling up the small city of 1,600 about 60 miles north of Jackson. About 80% of the city, nearly 1,300 people, are Black, census data shows.   https://news.yahoo.com/mississippi-police-chief-fired-leaked-225026653.html