The Chicago Police Department says it has launched an investigation after an officer was seen on video saying “Mike Brown deserved it.”
YouTube video posted last week showed a white male officer making racially charged comments, including a reference to the 2014 police shooting of the unarmed black teen in Ferguson, Missouri, during an argument with two men in a Chicago neighborhood.
“It’s all black people that live here, so I got no choice but to f------ pull over black people,” the officer is heard saying. “If you don’t like it, then move.”
The officer told the men that filming him won’t change what he has to say.
“We don’t know what ya’ll are going to do, ya’ll might shoot us,” the man recording says before mentioning Michael Brown.
“Ya, Mike Brown deserved it,” the officer says in the footage. “He got what he had coming.”
The Chicago Police Department has since called the officer’s remarks “troubling.”
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“CPD prides itself on fostering productive relationships with communities to help make Chicago safer,” the department said in a statement. “The comments in the video are troubling and do not represent the views of this department. Upon learning of the video we have opened an internal affairs investigation in the actions of this officer.”
It was not clear who shot the video or when the footage was taken, but the video was first reported by Mediatakeout and was posted to YouTube by user The Lyrical Elitist.
The officer was not identified by police and details surrounding when and where the incident took place were part of the ongoing investigation, police said.
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