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Mississippi Police Chief Fired After Racist Recording Leaked<!-- wp:html --><p>holmescountyms.org</p> <p>A Mississippi police chief has been sacked after he was recorded spewing racist and homophobic epithets— and even bragged about repeatedly shooting and killing suspects.</p> <p>“I shot that n— 119 times, OK?” former police chief Sam Dobbins said, according to the <a href="https://www.mississippicir.org/news/mississippi-police-chief-linked-to-racist-recording">Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting</a>.</p> <p>On Wednesday, the Board of Aldermen in Lexington, Mississippi, chose to remove Dobbins as head of the city’s police department.</p> <p><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/lexington-mississippi-police-chief-sam-dobbins-fired-after-racist-recording-leaked?source=articles&via=rss">Read more at The Daily Beast.</a></p><!-- /wp:html -->

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A Mississippi police chief has been sacked after he was recorded spewing racist and homophobic epithets— and even bragged about repeatedly shooting and killing suspects.

“I shot that n— 119 times, OK?” former police chief Sam Dobbins said, according to the Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting.

On Wednesday, the Board of Aldermen in Lexington, Mississippi, chose to remove Dobbins as head of the city’s police department.

Read more at The Daily Beast.

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