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Shocking audio reveals a Florida police captain instructing a deputy to act like a “white supremacist” and “neo-Nazi” while investigating an accused murder suspect.

Capt. Penny Phelps was suspended from the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office, where she is over the major crimes and narcotics division according to the Miami Herald. Sheriff Rick Ramsay was first notified of the audio in October, after he pulled Phelps from the 2017 case known as the “tree house murder.”

“Several issues concerning the tree house murder case have been brought to my attention,” Ramsay said in a statement. “I immediately turned them over to my Internal Affairs Division and directed that an investigation be initiated. At this point, I’m prohibited by law from discussing the details of the investigation until it is concluded.”

Ramsay launched an internal affairs probe into Phelps’s conduct. As of now, officials claim it’s too early to tell whether the captain will lose her job.

“We have to have all the facts first,” Ramsay told the Miami Herald. The incident started from a police investigation into a botched crack cocaine robbery at a makeshift tree house on Stock Island in the Florida Keys on Nov. 17, 2017. Authorities say suspects Rory “Detroit” Wilson, 52, and Franklin Tyrone Tucker, 48, fatally stabbed 59-year-old Mathew Bonnet. A woman victim was slashed in the throat but survived the attack.

Phelp’s comments came during the investigation were captured on the body camera of a sheriff’s deputy who was sitting in a room as she ordered another officer to stop Wilson, according to Ramsay. In the audio Phelps is heard telling the deputy, Lee Malone, to stake out Wilson’s home and to pull him over should he try leaving.

“We don’t want Detroit knowing that we know who he is,” Phelps said of Wilson, who’s Black. “We want it to look like you’re the grumpy old man. You have nothing better to do than, you’re the white supremacist, you’re messing with the black guy who’s riding his bike.”

“I just want you to be the neo-Nazi who’s picking on the black guy riding the bike,” she added.

Not too long later Phelps is heard telling other deputies on Malone’s assignment, describing the ruse as “the white supremacist cop picking on the poor black guy that’s riding on a bike.”

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