Three police officers in Wilmington, N.C., have lost their jobs after the discovery of one of them saying in a video recording that it would take a civil war to eliminate Black people.
The Wilmington Police Department fired Cpl. Jessie Moore, and officers Kevin Piner and Brian Gilmore after an audit of the video.
The remarks came during a monthly audit on June 4 in which officials say they discovered a two-hour long video from Piner’s police vehicle camera that was classified as an “accidental activation” local station WWAY reported.
Further in the video, Piner and Gilmore are heard talking about protests in Wilmington and Piner offensively criticizes other officers and their handling of protesters.
According to a police report, in one part of the audio, Piner is heard saying that he is “ready” for a “civil war” and that he would be purchasing an assault rifle because society would be close to “martial law” and said that soon “we are just gonna go out and start slaughtering them “f*****g n*****s.”
In another, Moore was heard talking about an arrest he had made of a Black woman, who he referred to as the N-word, saying she “needed a bullet in her head.”
