Alabama city disbands police force after racist text messages revealed
by Samira Asma-Sadeque from US news | The Guardian on (#628G7)
City council in small community of Vincent votes to terminate police chief, assistant and then whole department
The small city of Vincent in Alabama has voted to disband its police force after the revelation of racist text messages exchanged between two of its officers.
In the exchange, which recently surfaced on social media, one user named 752" asked: What do y'all call a pregnant slave?" To this, one person who is not identifiable through the text, responded with question marks.
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