Report: North Carolina cops investigated for possible racial slurs against Obama RAW STORY

Published: Friday November 14, 2008





Print This Email This Police in Durham, NC, are investigating derogatory and potentially racist Web postings from at least two of their officers directed at Barack Obama.



Details of the investigation remain murky, and Durham's chief of police has insisted that a "racial slur" is not the subject of the investigation, but civil rights groups are demanding more information.



The local NAACP says police need to release copies of the Web postings, which appeared on officers' MySpace or Facebook pages.



"We want to know if there will be transparency about those comments to the community and what disciplinary action if any will be taken against these officers," Durham's NAACP president Fred Foster Jr. told a local newspaper. "We believe that if these comments are against people of color, then it will be hard for those officers to serve and protect without prejudice and that they should not be allowed to wear the uniform representing public trust."



The investigation began last week, according to the Charlotte News & Observer, but police are not releasing the names of the officers involved or the contents of the messages.



"There's no exact words that were said," said Police Chief Jose L. Lopez Sr. told the paper. "It wasn't a racial slur, but we're still investigating it."



