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“No One Took Us Seriously”: Black Cops Warned About Racist Capitol Police Officers for Years ProPublica 1/14/2021 ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. When Kim Dine took over as the new chief of the U.S. Capitol Police in 2012, he knew he had a serious problem. Since 2001, hundreds of Black officers had sued the department for racial discrimination. They alleged that white officers called Black colleagues slurs like the N-word and that one officer found a hangman’s noose on his lock...

Black Cops Warned About Racist Capitol Police Officers For Years - Washington DC, DC - More than 250 Black cops have sued the department since 2001. Some say it's no surprise white nationalists were able to storm the Capitol.

Allegations of racism against the Capitol Police are nothing new: Over 250 Black cops have sued the department since 2001. Some of those former officers now say it’s no surprise white nationalists were able to storm the building.

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The U.S. Capitol building in Washington By Joshua Kaplan and Joaquin Sapien, ProPublica When Kim Dine took over as the new chief of the U.S. Capitol Police in 2012, he knew he had a serious problem. Since 2001, hundreds of Black officers had sued the department for racial discrimination. They alleged that white officers called Black colleagues slurs like the N-word and that one officer found a hangman’s noose on his locker. White officers were called “huk lovers” or “FOGs” — short for “friends of gangsters” — if they we...