Dallas 911 Operator Fired for Racist Facebook Tirades

[TexasTowelie]

Over the past several months, since the murder of Deanna Cook and a couple of other cases laid bare deep-seated problems at the city's 911 call center, Dallas police have scrambled to hire dozens of new call takers to address a chronic staffing shortage that had lasted for years.

It probably shouldn't be surprising, given the haste with which the hires were made, that at least some of the new recruits are less than ideal. One of them, April Sims, was fired on Wednesday after eight months on the job.

Dallas PD made the announcement Tuesday in a very brief news release that said rather vaguely that she had violated the department's social media policy.

Did she ever. Sims' Facebook page isn't public, but The Dallas Morning News and WFAA got a hold of screenshots from her account. They don't post the screenshots, but they do post some of the choicer quotes.

Examples of her racist Facebook posts and the remainder of the story are at http://blogs.dallasobserver.com/unfairpark/2013/06/black_people_are_like_animals.php .

[tanyev]

1. I was surprised at many of the comments on the DMN story.

Granted, the DMN comments have always been a cesspool of right wing lunacy, but I thought that might improve when they switched to a Facebook commenting system. Nope. Apparently there's a lot of people who think hateful things and don't care who knows about it.