Hamilton working to move forward after police officers caught on bodycam using racial slurs
Hamilton working to move forward after police officers caught on bodycam using racial slurs By Cindy Centofanti | February 4, 2021 at 7:42 PM EST - Updated February 4 at 10:11 PM
HAMILTON, Ga. (WTVM) - It has been a little over a week since Hamilton City officials discovered two of their police officers accidentally recorded themselves on body cameras using racially insensitive language.
As a result, city leaders asked former police chief Gene Allmond to resign and patrolman John Brooks was fired.
Today, we are bringing you a different vantage point, how the community of Hamilton and Harris County intends to move forward from this.
Feb. 2: News Briefs & Crime Blotter
Hamilton Police Chief resigns following racial slur incident
Yesterday, WSB-TV reported that the Hamilton Police Department’s police chief, Gene Allmond, resigned after he was seen in a recording using a racial slur. Patrolman John Brooks was unaware that his body camera was on during a smoke break with the police chief in front of the police department. In the video, both Allmond and Brooks can be heard using the N-word. The incident happened last year before a Black Lives Matter protest. The Hamilton Police Department also terminated Brooks.
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City officials had trouble watching the footage, in which the officer says n r and trivializes Black lives.
February 02, 2021 at 3:56 pm
Two members of a Georgia police department have had their positions vacated after they were recorded on body cam having a racist and demeaning conversation about Black people, slavery and voting rights activist Stacey Abrams.
In June, Hamilton police chief Gene Allmond and officer John Brooks were speaking before a Black Lives Matter protest while the body cameras they thought were inactive, documented their racist banter, local ABC-affiliate WTVM9 reported. Following the video’s exposure, Allmond resigned and Brooks was terminated on Wednesday.