Three police officers in Wilmington, North Carolina, were fired after a supervisor found recorded conversations including one officer saying he “can’t wait” to start “slaughtering” African Americans.
According to the New York Times, Wilmington Police Department Chief Donny Williams said in a news conference Wednesday that James Gilmore, Jesse Moore II, and Michael Piner were fired for misconduct after an internal investigation.
The investigation into the officers began when a supervisor’s routine inspection found the conversations, which were recorded by a patrol car camera used to monitor people in custody.
In one exchange between officers Piner and Gilmore, they criticized the protests and the department’s response.
In another conversation, Moore called Piner and during the exchange called a black woman he had arrested the day before a racial slur adding she “needed a bullet in her head right then and move on.”
