{"id":175866,"date":"2020-11-06T19:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-07T00:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/11\/06\/of-course-he-did\/"},"modified":"2020-11-06T19:30:00","modified_gmt":"2020-11-07T00:30:00","slug":"of-course-he-did","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/11\/06\/of-course-he-did\/","title":{"rendered":"Of Course He Did"},"content":{"rendered":"

In New York City, the commander of the police department’s Equal Employment Opportunity Division was just suspended for repeated unhinged racist rants on a law enforcement discussion board<\/a>.<\/p>\n

<\/a>This is my shocked face:<\/p>\n

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For more than 20 years, an online chat board called the Rant has been the place where New York City police officers have gone in secret to complain about their jobs \u2014 not infrequently using blatantly racist and misogynistic language.<\/span><\/p>\n

But even by the website\u2019s vitriolic standards, scores of recent posts by a user who calls himself \u201cClouseau\u201d have been especially disturbing.<\/span><\/p>\n

Between the summer of 2019 and earlier this fall, \u201cClouseau\u201d posted hundreds of messages on the Rant, many of which attacked Black people, Puerto Ricans, Hasidic Jews and others with an unbridled sense of animus.<\/span><\/p>\n

He referred to former President Barack Obama as a \u201cMuslim savage\u201d and called the Bronx district attorney, Darcel D. Clark, who is Black, \u201ca gap-toothed wildebeest.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n