'Smart enough to do it': Police chief fired after audio leaked of him bragging about killing spree
A Mississippi police chief was fired on Wednesday when his former subordinate, a Black man, recorded him in a racist and homophobic rant bragging about the toxic and violent police culture the chief upheld. Ex-Lexington Police Chief Sam Dobbins can be heard in the about 16-minute recording initially reported by the Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting telling former officer Robert Lee Hooker that one day he would “get into some s---” and Dobbins would be the “one man fighting” for Hooker. “Don’t ever ruin that, alright,” Dobbins said.
He went on in the April recording, bragging about killing 13 men in the line of duty and having their deaths determined to be “justified.”
“I shot that n----- 119 times, OK,” Dobbins said of one of his slain victims. “I don’t give a f--- if you kill a m----------- in cold blood. Do you hear what I’m saying? I will articulate to fix the f------ problem, and I’m the only man in the business here that’s smart enough to do it.”
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