Former assistant police chief sent messages urging recruit to shoot black people

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — A former assistant police chief sent numerous racist messages to a Louisville Metro Police recruit, including one that said if he caught black juveniles smoking marijuana, he should shoot them.

Todd Shaw, who worked in Prospect, Ky., sent the “highly disturbing racist and threatening Facebook messages” to the recruit, according to a letter Jefferson County Attorney Mike O’Connell sent to Prospect Mayor John Evans.

Shaw, who had previously worked 20 years as a Louisville officer, was suspended, then fired, last year from the Prospect force.

O’Connell told Evans that while Shaw and the recruit were discussing a training scenario in which the recruit was to write a paper on "the right thing to do" if he caught three juveniles smoking marijuana, Shaw stated: "F*** the right thing. If black shoot them.”

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