A Georgia police chief did not realize that an officer’s bodycam was on when he made racist statements that led to his resignation.
Former Hamilton Police Chief Gene Allmond was ordered to quit by Mayor Julie Brown, while Police Sgt. John Brooks was fired after the two men engaged in casual conversation that featured gratuitous use of the N-word.
The video of the two cops was obtained by TMZ on Sunday evening, Jan. 31, 2021. The footage actually was recorded in summer 2020 before a Black Lives Matter demonstration in Hamilton, Georgia, a 90-mile drive southwest of Atlanta near the Alabama border.
In one part of the video, the ex-chief implied that plantation owners were doing enslaved Africans a favor.
“For the most part, it seems to me like they furnished them a house to live in. They furnished them clothes to put on their back. They furnished them food to put on their table, and all they had to do was f—ing work. And now we give ’em all those things and don’t have to f—ing work,” he said, according to News Nation.
Later in the video, the two men appeared to be discussing the officer who was fired by Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms after he shot and killed Rayshard Brooks in the parking lot of Wendy’s fast-food restaurant. Both exhibited disgust for “that mayor up there.”
But then Brooks sexualized Bottoms despite his hatred of her. “If I had to f— a n—–, I’d rather f— the mayor than Stacey Abrams,” Brooks said in the video obtained by This is Butter. The ex-chief replied, “Yes, sir.”
Flip the page to view an edited version of the conversation between the former police chief and officer by News Nation, followed by the complete six-minute video transcript from This is Butter.
