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‘We Only Kill Black People,’ Police Officer Says During Traffic Stop


We Only Kill Black People,’ Police Officer Says During Traffic Stop

By CHRISTINE HAUSER and JACEY FORTINAUG. 31, 2017


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwNXeJKL3CQ

A still photo from dashboard camera video footage of a traffic stop last year near Marietta, Ga. Credit via WSB-TV

A police officer in Georgia has left his position after he was recorded on a dashboard camera trying to convince a white woman that she had nothing to worry about during a traffic stop because she was not black.

The Cobb County Police Department said on Thursday that it was “moving forward” with the process to “terminate” the employment of the officer, Lt. Greg Abbott. He retired on the same day, the department confirmed on Friday.

The video, obtained by WSB Channel 2 Action News in Atlanta, shows Lieutenant Abbott standing at the side of a car during a traffic stop last year. He tells the woman, a passenger, that she could use her cellphone.

“It’s in your lap right there,” he says. She replies that she does not want to move her hands, saying she has seen “way too many videos” about how the police behave at traffic stops.

“But you’re not black,” Lieutenant Abbott replies. “Remember, we only kill black people. Yeah. We only kill black people, right?”
Georgia cop to driver: "We only kill black people." Video by WSB-TV

WSB-TV published an excerpt from the interaction on Thursday after it obtained the video through an open-records request.
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