Racist, anti-LGBT+ texts by cops could jeopardize hundreds of cases
The caption read “hanging with the homies.” The picture above it showed several Black men who had been lynched. Another photo asked what someone should do if their girlfriend was having an affair with a Black man. The answer, according to the caption, was to break “a tail light on his car so the police will stop him and shoot him.” Someone else sent a picture of a candy cane, a Christmas tree ornament, a star for the top of the tree and an “enslaved person.” “Which one doesn’t belong?” the caption asked. “You don’t hang the star,” someone wrote […]