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Police are investigating the jarring interruption of an online meeting of a Fairfield racial justice group with racist comments and images.

Racial equity meeting interrupted with racist slurs, images PAT EATON-ROBB, Associated Press FacebookTwitterEmail A person interrupted a video conference meeting of a racial equity task force in Fairfield, Connecticut, with racist slurs, including some directed at Black members of the group, police said Friday. They're trying to identify the person who joined the Thursday evening meeting of the city’s Racial Equity and Justice Task Force shared their screen to show images of enslaved people in addition to making racist remarks. It is being investigated as a potential hate crime, Fairfield ...

Published 4 hours ago • Updated 2 hours ago NBCConnecticut.com Fairfield police have started a hate-crime investigation after someone made disparaging and racist remarks during the Racial Equity and Justice Task Force’s video conference meeting Thursday night, police said. The meetings are open to the public and someone who joined the meeting shared his or her screen around 7:30 p.m., showing images of enslaved people, launched racial epithets and made racist remarks to the group, according  to police. Download our mobile app for iOS or Android to get alerts for local breaking news ...

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UpdatedFri, Apr 23, 2021 at 2:13 am ET Replies(11) Fairfield police have launched a hate crime investigation after an incident at a task force meeting Thursday. (Anna Bybee-Schier/Patch) FAIRFIELD, CT — Fairfield police are conducting a hate crime investigation after a meeting of the town's Racial Equity and Justice Task Force was interrupted by racist comments from an unidentified person, according to a department news release. The public meeting, held via videoconference, was interrupted about 7:30 p.m. Thursday, when the person screen-shared images of slaves and said racial epithets and ...