http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/04/13/trooper.klan.costume.ap/index.html
SANDUSKY, Ohio (AP) -- A highway patrolman who was photographed in a
handmade Ku Klux Klan
costume while on duty the day before the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday
has
been suspended
without pay, authorities said.
A fellow trooper who transmitted the cell-phone photo of white-masked
lawman
has been demoted.
Craig Franklin, a 12-year veteran of the Ohio Highway Patrol, is pictured
in
the January 20 photo
with a white cone on his head, white paper mask and a white cloth covering
his shoulders,
according to a highway patrol re****t.
Franklin is otherwise in trooper uniform. A handgun holster, a radio
normally issued by the
patrol and other police equipment can be seen in the photo, the re****t
said.
Franklin and Trooper Eric Wlodarsky told an investigator that the picture
was taken as a joke and
was modeled on a television skit by comedian Dave Chappelle.
Highway patrol officials began an investigation after the patrol's
Administrative Investigative
Unit received an anonymous letter that included two photographs of
Franklin
in the outfit, an
interoffice memo said.
Franklin, Wlodarsky, another trooper and a dispatcher discussed Martin
Luther King Jr. Day at
their post on the day the photo was taken, the re****t said. The national
holiday was the
following day.
None of the 13 troopers assigned to the Sandusky post are black.
"Obviously, we're extremely disappointed," said patrol spokesman Lt. Shawn
Davis. "This kind of
conduct cannot and will not be tolerated."
Following a March 24 hearing, Wlodarsky was demoted from sergeant to
trooper, transferred to
another post and must attend a diversity awareness class. Franklin was
placed on a five-day
unpaid suspension, and must take part in diversity awareness training,
patrol do***ents showed.
THE MORE YOU CAN GET CAUCASOIDS TO READ, THE SOONER THEY FIND OUT THAT
THEY
ARE JUST CONSPICUOUSLY EXPLOITED CAUCASOIDS WHICH ARE WHITE NIGGERS.
What Is a "White Nigger" ?
By Andrew D. Todd
http://hnn.us/articles/1220.html
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