One of the officers involved said he was making plans to kill Black people during a civil war he believes is on its way.
Three police officers in Wilmington, North Carolina, were fired this Tuesday after it was discovered via dashcam video recordings that they had engaged in racist dialogue toward their boss, their co-workers and members of the community.
Recordings of the officers’ conversation were discovered when a sergeant was doing a routine audit of the equipment. After listening to the recordings, she determined they were “extremely racist” and reported them.
The three officers heard on the recordings — Michael “Kevin” Piner, Jesse E. Moore II and James B. Gilmore — have worked as officers for the department since the late 1990s, and each made racist comments on the video, according to Police Chief Donny Williams.
“This is the most exceptional and difficult case I have encountered in my career,” Williams, who is Black, and who has been on the force for 29 years, said.
The commentary between the three officers involved was indeed disturbing, and incredibly racist. Piner, for example, predicted the uprisings would result in a new civil war across the country.
“I’m ready,” Piner said, according to the video recording, adding that he was planning to buy an assault rifle for it.
“We are just going to go out and start slaughtering them f—— n——,” he also said.
