South Bend Police Officers Caught On Video Joking About KKK

Throughout an arrest, video captured South Bend, Indiana cops quoting a 

Ku Klux Klan scene from the movie Django Unchained.

On Wednesday (December 18), officers arrested Marko Mosgrove who had been charged with housebreaking, intimidation, carrying a handgun and not using a license and resisting regulation enforcement, which stemmed from a December three capturing, based on paperwork.

Earlier than he was arrested, Mosgrove used his cellphone to file a stay video of the incident on his Fb web page. The video exhibits him strolling out of his dwelling along with his arms raised and being taken into custody. The officers subsequently enter the home to conduct a search after which a couple of minutes later, they discover the cellphone recording.

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Whereas the display screen then goes black, the audio continues recording and that’s when one of many officers mentions a cranium masks.

“You recognize what’s a good suggestion in your child is a cranium masks. In case you must shoot a man,” one officer is heard saying whereas laughing.

“That is the way you rob banks, alright,” one other chimes in.

After making reference to the comedian e-book character The Punisher, the primary officer says, “I can’t see [expletive] [expletive] out of this factor.”

One other officer asks if he’s referring to the movie The Boondock Saints.

“No, Django Unchained,” he replies.

South Bend police spokesman Ken Garcia has since launched an announcement (through the South Bend Tribune). “The video is being investigated by the South Bend Police Division’s Workplace of Skilled Requirements,” he stated. “The division is taking this matter very critically.”

That is simply the most recent instance of police misconduct going down in mayor and Democratic presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg’s dwelling metropolis. Mayor Pete had beforehand been criticized for his mishandling of and reported underwhelming response to the killing of 54-year-old Eric Logan, a Black father who was shot-and-killed by a white South Bend police officer on Father’s Day 2019. 

Buttigieg additionally caught flack for demanding the resignation of Darryl Boykins, South Bend’s first Black police chief, in 2012. It’s one thing even he himself thought-about his “first severe mistake as mayor.”

Django Unchained follows the story of a freed slave within the South who makes an attempt to free his spouse. The scene the officers referred to depicts KKK members struggling to see via hoods which have eye holes that aren’t correctly lower.