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# Georgia Police Officer Fired for Saying 'We Only Shoot Black People'

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## Video: Georgia Police Officer Fired for Saying 'We Only Shoot Black People'

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_Published 2017-09-01. A police officer in Georgia will be fired after he was recorded on video telling a woman during a traffic stop, “We only shoot black people.”_


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## Transcript

No. I can't call [ UNKNOWN ]. Why can't you? Because I will not put my. Use your phone, it's in your lap right there. Okay, I just don't want to put my hands down. I am really sorry, I am just [ INAUDIBLE ], No, no, I have just seen way too many videos of cops. But you are not black. Remember We only kill black people. Yeah, we only kill black people right? All the videos you have seen, have you seen white people get killed? Yes. You have. [ INAUDIBLE ] [ BLANK_AUDIO ] I've known Lt. Abbott for a number of years and I've always perceived him to be an honorable man. But he made a mistake. [ BLANK_AUDIO ] I don't know what's in his heart, but I certainly know what came out of his mouth.

And it's inexcusable, and we have to take appropriate action. The recommendation is to terminate his employment from the Cobb County Police Department. And certainly there is a process that we would have to go through in order to do that but we are certainly moving forward with that process. I've already said that in no context can I tolerate this type of language and so I don't really think that we can sit here and justify any type of language when the verbage is what we heard on that video.

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