A police lieutenant in Georgia has been moved to administrative duty after being heard on video during a traffic stop saying “we only kill black people.”
News outlets report dash-cam video, obtained by Channel 2 Action News, from July 2016 shows a white female driver telling Cobb County police Lt. Greg Abbott she was scared to move her hands in order to get her cellphone. Abbott, who also is white, interrupts her and says, “But you’re not black. Remember, we only kill black people.”
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