A police chief in Texas was positioned on administrative go away as town investigates if he used the N-word at a homicide scene.
Medina County Sheriff Randy Brown alerted Castroville metropolis leaders after listening to the racial slur in footage from a deputy’s physique digital camera, he informed KSAT. Medina claims he heard Castroville Police Chief Brian Jackson use the N-word thrice whereas at a homicide scene on Feb. 5.
Jackson, who has been with the division since April 2012, didn't reply to The Put up’s requests for remark.
Castroville’s Metropolis Council on Tuesday unanimously voted to put Jackson on go away till the investigation is completed.
“We don’t take this frivolously,” Castroville Mayor Darrin Schroeder informed the San Antonio Specific Information. “Discrimination and racism is a big downside in our nation and the world, and it could’t be an issue in Castroville.”
The mayor additionally informed the newspaper that Jackson has labored to construct belief between the police division and the group throughout his tenure.
“He’s the one who has turned the division round fairly a bit,” Schroeder informed the paper.
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