Jacksonville police sergeant believes "black people are one of America's 3 biggest problems"

The Sheriff’s office in Jacksonville, Florida, has launched an internal investigation looking into accusations that one of its sergeants had been tweeting racially insensitive comments.

An account tied to Sgt. Douglas Howell, one of the city’s gang task force, allegedly made several derogatory posts about anti-racism efforts, Mexican people, and the LGBTQ+ community. The outlet points out the Twitter account was locked soon after the story was published.

One tweet from 2013 claimed that “America’s Three Biggest Problems” are “Marijuana Abuse, Marijuana Abuse, and Black people.” Another that News4Jax uncovered claimed an appearance by Boy and Girl Scouts at the Pride parade was “sick and demented.”
The third tweet responding to a story titled “White Mexicans have had a role to play in white supremacy” says: ”There are different colored Mexicans?? (Inserts Sarcasm).”

The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office says officers are free to express themselves on social media as long as the content of what they post does not interfere with their work or violate the office’s social media policy. However, a violation of that policy would be “engaging in speech in any form…that ridicules, maligns, disparages, or otherwise expresses bias against any race, any religion, or any protected class of individuals.” Jacksonville Sheriff Pat Ivey said the department is looking into the Twitter account allegedly tied to Howell and the legitimacy of the posts.

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If true, this lowlife should obviously be dismissed from the force, but you never know how those "department will look into it" situations will turn out.

 

Yeah I don't think it's a good idea to have someone who thinks that black people are a problem in charge of upholding the law, especially in a city like Jacksonville that has a lot of black people. Him being disgusted by the gay pride parade and cracking jokes on Mexicans is pretty on par for his type, too.

 

I definitely didn’t invite your police-loving ass into this thread.

 

That's nice. Any comment on the actual story?

 

That's the million dollar question. I'm willing to bet you'll find several complaints of harassment levied against this officer that were probably swept under the rug.

 

Still no comments on the racist officer in question? Deflect and derail, as usual.