CMPD Police Chief expresses disgust, anger and frustration over racist texts among officers

My personal reaction is what I've discussed, anger, frustration. CMPD has broken its days-long silence over specifics about the investigation that exposed racist messages sent in between its officers. My name is Julia Coyne. I'm the courts and public safety reporter for the Charlotte Observer. Inside the Spectrum Center just now, Chief Estella Patterson said that she has asked the FBI to investigate six of the officers that were involved in these messages. Three of them have resigned and three of them have been recommended for termination. The next step is for that to go to a city board that will determine whether the officers will in fact be terminated. Chief Patterson also said that the text showed several different kinds of bias. I can share with you that the biases show racial, sexual, they also show religious biases. She said that of the three officers that have not yet been terminated, she hopes to soon call them former employees. And we will be pursuing as an organization the revocation of their North Carolina law enforcement certificate so that they cannot be an officer anywhere in our state and I hope that they will not be an officer anywhere in this country.