Report: Ousted police chief recorded boasting that he 'shot that n- 119 times'
Sam Dobbins was fired after being surreptitiously recorded by Robert Lee Hooker, a Black officer in the Lexington Police Department.
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Sam Dobbins was fired after being surreptitiously recorded by Robert Lee Hooker, a Black officer in the Lexington Police Department.
Sam Dobbins, a Mississippi police chief, has been fired from the force after he was recorded using racist and homophobic slurs as well as bragging about how many people he had killed.
Former Lexington Police Chief Sam Dobbins was fired after heard on leaked audio using racist and homophobic slurs while bragging about killing people
Lexington Police Chief Sam Dobbins was fired for allegedly using homophobic and racist slurs captured on a recording.
363 2 minutes read This summer, a group of Black organizers in Holmes County reconstituted the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, the historic Party of Fannie Lou Hamer which sought to challenge the stranglehold of racist Democrats in Mississippi. Cardell Wright, the chairman of the new MFDP, and Black Lives Matter organizers teamed up on Feb. 1 to protest the Confederate monument that sits outside the courthouse in Lexington, Mississippi. Wright and others also took the opportunity to speak out against Mississippi’s new anti-protest laws. He said, “First amendment rights, they’...