Getty Creative total of three Wilmington, North Carolina police officers have been fired after a department audit of a video recording revealed racism among its ranks.
Officer James Gilmore, Corporal Jesse Moore, II, and Officer Kevin Piner were all removed from the Wilmington Police Department on Tuesday.
The city council decided to publicly release the details of their to a press release from the Wilmington Police Department, a sergeant within the police department was alarmed by the “extremely racist” comments she heard while conducting a routine audit of police audio.
Chief Donny Williams notes in a department memo that he fired three officers for verbalizing racism toward Black people.
According to the department press release, the cases involving Moore, Piner, and Gilmore are expected to be reviewed by the district attorney’s office for signs of bias toward criminal defendants.
