Police Reassures Woman: We Only Kill Black People

This week a video, showing a U.S. police officer telling a woman that she was safe in his presence because she wasn’t black, surfaced on social media. “Remember, we only kill black people,” Cobb County Police Lt. Gregg Abbott is heard saying in video obtained by WSB-TV Wednesday. “We only kill black people, right?”

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The woman was pulled over during a DUI stop. She is heard telling the officer that she was afraid to move her hands because she had seen videos of police encounters with motorists going wrong.

He reassured her saying, that all the videos she has seen, have only black people getting killed.

Abbott has been a police officer for 28 years, and after the video was leaked, he has been placed on administrative leave. An internal investigation is looking into the case. His lawyer says that he is a highly respected officer who trying to de-escalate a situation involving an uncooperative passenger.”

“In context, his comments were clearly aimed at attempting to gain compliance by using the passenger’s own statements and reasoning to avoid making an arrest,” his lawyer Lance LoRusso told WSB-TV.

Abbott’s boss, Cobb County Police Chief Mike Register is still disappointed with his statements. He says that he should not have made such statements no matter what the context.

Suri Chadha Jimenez, is representing the woman driver in the case, said to WBTV 2 Atlanta  he believes the officer was being sarcastic after the woman “gave him some lip.”

“It makes you cringe when you hear it. It’s unacceptable,” Jimenez said.

Jimenez says indicated that the fear minorities have when stopped by a cop is real.

Police in America target black people disproportionately. Last year the police killed over 250 black people. Black men are more likely to be killed by police than any other demographic.

The officer has now announced his retirement in an email he issued to the county. This was after Mike Register announced his plans to fire him. “I don’t know what is in his heart,” the chief said, “but I know what came out of his mouth.”

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