The Wilmington Police Department in North Carolina has fired three officers after a video recording captured them engaging in a discussion about preparing for a “civil war” against Black people.
According to The Charlotte Observer, police said a sergeant was reviewing department footage from one of the officer’s cars as part of a monthly video audit when she came across the offensive conversation.
After the sergeant examined the conversation closer, police officials say she determined comments made by Cpl. Jessie Moore and officers Kevin Piner and Brian Gilmore were “extremely racist.”
Almost 30 minutes after the officers began talking, Moore called Piner and engaged in further admonishing Black people, calling a Black woman a “negro,” among other things.
The terminated Wilmington officers’ cases also will be reviewed by the district attorney’s office for further investigation into their behavior, The Observer reports.
