Bridgeport Officer Who Reported Racist Letter Wrote It: Police

[Jesus Malverde]

A former Bridgeport police officer who claimed someone left a racist memo on police letterhead in his mailbox at headquarters in February admitted to writing the letter himself and has been charged with filing a false report, according to police.

Former Officer Clive Higgins reported that he found a racist hate letter in his police mailbox the morning of Monday, Feb. 9 and feared for his life because of it.

The letter, printed on paper marked with the department's official letterhead, started off with "WHITE POWER" and went on to say "Officer Clive Higgins doesn't belong here in this Police Department" and "These Black Officers belong in the toilet."

A month earlier, Higgins was acquitted in connection with a 2011 police brutality case in which officers were caught on camera beating a suspect at Beardsley Park and shooting him with a stun gun. Two other officers were convicted, but a federal jury found Higgins not guilty.

http://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/local/Bridgeport-Officer-Who-Reported-Racist-Letter-Wrote-It-Police-360060851.html#

[Igel]

1. Meh.

Another sensationalism-seeking loser.

Sadly, incidents like this get read in the first report when they're Big News and make it into many a person's knowledge-base, that store of background knowledge against which actions are judged and which form the basis of attitudes and beliefs. Once there, it's really hard to question, to not remember them en masse, and even to reject citing such cases when necessary. They're taken to be true and unlearning that incorrect status takes effort and more than a bit of self-awareness and evaluation/criticism of one's own argument.