Mississippi police chief fired after leaked audio of slurs, shootings: “I shot that n—– 119 times, OK?”
A police chief in Mississippi is now rightfully out of a job after being fired Wednesday for his horrible actions.
A leaked recording showed that the official had bragged about killing 13 people in the line of duty and even used the n-word repeatedly as he described one Black person that he says he shot at least 119 times!
The audio was recorded by Robert Lee Hooker, a Black man who resigned as an officer from the Lexington Police Department last week due to what he described as a toxic work environment. In the nearly 16-minute conversation, which was first reported by the Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting, and later obtained by The Washington Post, plays audio of Dobbs boasting to Hooker about all of the men he killed as an officer: “I’ve killed 13 men in my career, justified,” he said, according to the recording. “In my line of duty, I have shot and killed 13 different people.” He went on to describe an alleged shootout in a cornfield where Dobbins claimed that he “saved 67 kids in a school” by shooting a Black man more than 100 times.
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“I shot that n—– 119 times, okay?” Dobbins said to Hooker, adding that the man he shot was “DRT,” an abbreviation for “dead right there,” per the Post. As of right now, It’s unclear what case he’s referencing, but Dobbins reiterated in the audio, “The vehicle was shot 319 times, but he was hit 119 times by me.”
Once the audio made its rounds online, the board of aldermen voted 3-2 Wednesday to get rid of Dobbins, effective immediately.
The news site notes that Dobbins denied using the slurs: “I don’t talk like that,” Dobbins said. He also told the Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting that he was unaware of the recording and that the topic of killing people in the line of duty was “something we don’t discuss, period.”
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