Video of white people taking target practice using an image of a Black man has left many people outraged in a local city. Villa Rica Mayor Gil McDougal has ordered that the images be removed from social media and also asked for an investigation into the matter.
The police department posted a short video clip of white citizens using an image of a Black man for target practice at its firearms training course over the weekend. It also posted pictures. The post got more than 500 comments and more than 400 shares.
People in the community who saw the images called it offensive and disgusting. One local man in the community, Emmanuel Mincey went to the police department and filed a complaint saying it sends the wrong message to the black community. “Hey, guys. We shoot at you for target practice,” he said. Many wondered why there were no images of white people used for target practice. But the chief claims they were used, just not posted on social media like the black images were.
“That day, they started with that target,” Mansour said while pointing at an image of a white man. “They ran out of those targets at the range. And they put these targets up,” he continued, as he pointed to the image of the black man.
McDougal said someone should have noticed the message it would send.
“Seems like you could see right from the moment you put these pictures up that there was going to be a question,” McDougal said.
The police chief said his officers just missed it. “We did not notice that because we don’t look at that. Therefore, it was just a mistake,” Mansour said.
The images have been removed from the department’s Facebook page. The mayor asked that the comments remain and said the city will have an independent firm investigate what happened.
McDougal said people are calling and emailing the city, and they are responding to each person, one by one. He said he wants to be transparent and let people know this shouldn’t have happened and won’t happen again.
please tell me why everyone is surprised? this has been going on since the day of time. At this point MEALANATED people be ready this is never going away. It won’t change until you change your behavior and your way of thinking when it comes down to how you treat yourself and your own. Others look at you as the weakest link. Ask yourself, do you see other people being treated this way? NO. Get it together people.