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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Thu Jun 23, 2022, 08:49 PM Jun 2022

NYPD cop fired for sharing racist cartoon mocking George Floyd's death, expletive-filled messages [View all]

NEW YORK — A 13-year veteran New York Police Department cop has been fired for sending a vile 2020 group text message mocking the death of George Floyd beneath a Minneapolis police officer’s knee, The New York Daily News has learned.

Probationary Sgt. Yonathan Bonifacio, whose dismissal became effective this past December, forwarded an image of Minneapolis Officer Derek Chauvin with his knee on Floyd’s neck as a white spirit was seen exiting the dead Black man’s body, NYPD disciplinary documents showed.

“Holy s---, I’m finally white,” says the Floyd character, while Chauvin is depicted as responding “You’re welcome.”

Bonifacio shared the message with nine subordinates, two of them Black officers, just three months after Floyd’s death ignited violence and mass protests across the country in the summer of 2020.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/veteran-nypd-cop-fired-for-sharing-racist-cartoon-mocking-george-floyd-s-death-expletive-filled-messages/ar-AAYNRgF

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