26-year-old Diante Yarber was killed after police fired into his car in a Walmart parking lot.

Last month in Barstow, California, Diante Yarber was killed when police fired an estimated 30 bullets into his car in a Walmart parking lot. This story is all-too familiar. Police claimed to have been looking for a “suspicious” vehicle with a “suspicious” black male inside. They came across a vehicle with a black man in it. So, of course, they then decided to fire directly into it, in public, almost murdering everyone inside of it. As details continue to emerge about this tragedy, it has also come to light that one of the officers involved in the shooting had been previously charged with a hate crime and was fired at one point.

Wow. How completely unsurprising.

According to The Guardian, Jimmie Alfred Walker had quite a record.

Walker, who is white, was charged in 2010 with hate crime and battery charges after the then 30-year-old officer allegedly used racial slurs against a man and assaulted him and a woman while off duty. The officer eventually pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charges of fighting in a public place and being drunk in public, while the battery charge and hate crime charge (“violating civil rights by force or threat of force”) were dropped, according to records obtained by the Guardian.

Most folks would be tempted to ask how someone like this could still have their job. But, we shouldn’t bother asking. We already know full well why he was allowed to keep his job. It’s because racism is an acceptable, and even explicit, part of policing and officers can assault and use racial slurs against blacks and people of color with impunity—escaping judgment and penalty in both the courts and in public opinion. Very often, they are even praised for it.

In this case, Walker got off with a slap on the wrist. He was allowed to admit to deplorable behavior and addiction and eventually got his job back, with back pay.