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Racist, violent posts by police: Departments investigating

By MICHAEL RUBINKAM ers bashing immigrants
Associated Press and Muslims, promoting
Police departments in at racist stereotypes, identify-
least five states are investi- ing with right-wing militia
gating, and in some cases groups and, especially,
condemning, their officers' glorifying police brutality.
social media feeds after All the posts were public.
the weekend publication "It's a good day for a choke
of a database that ap- hold," wrote an officer in
pears to catalog thou- Phoenix.
sands of bigoted or violent A sergeant in Philadelphia
posts by active-duty and commented that a young
former cops. suspect should be “taken
The posts were uncovered out back and put down
by a team of researchers like the rabid animal he is.”
who spent two years look- Another sergeant posted a
ing at the personal Face- meme that said, “Death to
book accounts of police Islam.”
officers from Arizona to In this May 8, 2017 file photo Phoenix Police Chief Jeri L. Williams makes an announcement during
Florida. They found offic- Continued on next Page a news conference in Phoenix.
Associated Press