A Boston police officer has been suspended for six months without pay for making a racist video and sharing it with his buddies on the force, the Boston Globe reports.
William B. Evans, the city's police commissioner, announced the decision to suspend Joseph DeAngelo Jr. on Thursday. He's been on leave since June 15, when he first admitted to making the video.
DeAngelo told investigators the video—shot like a movie trailer—was meant to be a joke, but it doesn't sound all that funny. According to the Globe, the words "in the fight between good and evil comes an unlikely pair" flash across the screen before the first shot: a still of Officer Dennis Leahy and his dog, who has one leg in a cast.
Deangelo Jr. tags the would-be film's heroes as "an inept cop" and a "a dog with a limp" before going on to reveal the ostensible villains. The next shot is a photo of several black women, overlaid with these words: "Black people have met their match."
Commissioner Evans told the Globe Deangelo Jr. sent the "trailer" to a couple cops and a handful of his other buddies. Word got around to the department, which mounted an investigation revealing that Leahy didn't know he was being recorded, and wasn't complicit in making the video. DeAngelo, however, admitted that what he did was decidedly fucked up.
"I offer a deep and sincere apology for the thoughtless, childish, insensitive, and offensive racial references contained in [the] video," he wrote in an open letter. "We all make mistakes in life... I made a big one."
CBS Boston reports DeAngelo patrols Roxbury, a Boston neighborhood whose population is about 55 percent black, according to the 2010 census.
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