‘We only kill black people,’ cop tells white woman at traffic stop
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Pulled over by police in Cobb County, Ga., the woman tells the officer she's afraid of being shot. The officer tells her to use her phone, which is in her lap. But she doesn't want to do anything with her hands.
"I just don't want to put my hands down," she tells the officer. "I've just seen way too many videos of cops..."
The officer cuts her off. "But you're not black. Remember we only kill black people. Yeah. We only kill black people, right? All the videos you've seen, have you seen white people get killed?"
The video comes from Atlanta's WSB-TV, whose reporter obtained the footage through an open-records request.
The police chief told the station "we're gonna deal with it." The officer is on administrative leave, according to the New York Times.
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