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Two detectives in the Trayvon Martin case called Martin a 'n****r' and a 'thug' in a vile rant about the slain teenager, a secret recording has revealed.
Deputies Edwin Downs and Pat Allison, from Hocking County Sheriff's Office in Ohio, were heard saying Martin, 17, was shot because he was black and wearing a hoodie.
The recording was made in 2013 - a year after Martin was killed by George Zimmerman - and came to light in 2015, but the pair were let off the hook and told to take a cultural sensitivity class.Their sheriff said the pair were entitled to use racist language, insisting they had a right to 'freedom of speech'.
Downs, 41, and Allison, 55, were unaware they were being recorded when they made the racially charged comments about Martin while they were on duty, the Logan Daily News reported.
Allison said: 'That n****r is a good n****r, Lord.'Wasn’t that n****r wearing a hoodie in Florida? It was like 90 degrees,' he also said.
He added: 'We could make a little money if they all pay us to burn crosses in n****r yards. We could sell portable crosses like a wood cross with a base so you could just stand it in the yard instead of like having to dig a hole for it. it could have the fire starter chunks built in it.'
When asked if Zimmerman was right to shoot Martin and if gun control played a part in the shooting, Downs said: 'It did, but a lot of it was because he was a n****r – a n****r thug.'
During the conversation, he was also heard to say 'maybe you shouldn’t be black' and 'I’d say, a dead one, you know it'.
Describing a black person, he said: 'All you can see are two white things - eyeballs and teeth.'
Last edited by DollyLongstaff (6/01/2016 7:34 am)
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And people wonder why some people do not trust the police.