THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2006
Durham Police Investigator Searches For Evidence of Racial Slurs
In another example of fine detective work and superior investigative skills, the Durham Police Department has failed, according to Chief Steve Chalmers, to uncover evidence of the use of racial slurs in the great Blinco's caper.
Chalmers said today that department investigators had not been able to determine that any racial slurs were exchanged.
As some of the officers were leaving a parking area behind the bar about 11:30 p.m., they encountered Rene Dennis Thomas, a 29-year-old line cook who was taking a cigarette break. Thomas said shortly after the incident that after a truck carrying some of the men peeled out of the parking lot he shouted "woo-hoo." Thomas said that a man in the truck shouted a racial slur at him and he replied with one. Thomas said the fight occurred after that.
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A white passenger of the vehicle looked out the window and yelled back, "F- you, n****r!" During a press conference Monday, Durham Police Deputy Chief Ron Hodge, an African-American, told reporters he was certainly concerned about one of his officers using the n-word while allegedly assaulting someone. Use of the racial slur is against department policy.
"These two were involved in what I would describe as northing less than a public brawl with a perfect stranger," Chalmers said. "It really failed to rise to the level of what we expect from our officers."
It failed to rise to the level???? What exactly did he want those officers to do to that cook? (OK, I know what he meant..but that's NOT what he said! - that is, if the quote is correct.
Sort of the reverse of the old "sticks and stones" thing.