In 31 years, I’ve never seen anything like that in public … I was taken aback … and was offended about that occurring in public and it bothered me. It was not directed at anybody, but it came out and it was wrong.

—David Dominguez, the Palm Springs police chief who spent his last day on the job after 31 years of service testifying in the Warm Sands sex sting case on Friday, acknowledged to the court he called the gay men he witnessed “dirty, filthy MF-ers,” but he wasn’t being a homophobe or anything [via]