This happened in Austin. Anybody notice this type of attitude by police when responding to black clubs or is the Midtown Live Club just this bad?
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'Burn baby burn' messages lead to suspensions
Police officers, dispatchers were reacting to nightclub fire
Sunday, March 6, 2005 Posted: 10:48 AM EST (1548 GMT)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- Five police officers and four dispatchers were suspended for sending computer messages after a nightclub caught fire joking about the blaze and quoting a line from the song "Disco Inferno" -- "burn baby burn."
Witnesses at the Midtown Live club saw the "burn baby burn" message on the computer screen inside an officer's patrol car during the February 18 fire. Police Chief Stan Knee said a commander and corporal who responded to the scene worked to calm angry witnesses.
The club has a mostly black clientele, and there were suggestions after the fire that the messages revealed racial bias in the department.......
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Read the story...
http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/03/06/fire.discipline.ap/index.html
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'Burn baby burn' messages lead to suspensions
Police officers, dispatchers were reacting to nightclub fire
Sunday, March 6, 2005 Posted: 10:48 AM EST (1548 GMT)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- Five police officers and four dispatchers were suspended for sending computer messages after a nightclub caught fire joking about the blaze and quoting a line from the song "Disco Inferno" -- "burn baby burn."
Witnesses at the Midtown Live club saw the "burn baby burn" message on the computer screen inside an officer's patrol car during the February 18 fire. Police Chief Stan Knee said a commander and corporal who responded to the scene worked to calm angry witnesses.
The club has a mostly black clientele, and there were suggestions after the fire that the messages revealed racial bias in the department.......
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Read the story...
http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/03/06/fire.discipline.ap/index.html
