Five Phila. officers fired, three over slurs

Posted on Fri, Apr. 24, 2009
By Robert Moran
Inquirer Staff Writer


The article was about five police officers who were recently have been fired for using racial comments. Also an officer by the name of William Thrasher was said to have said some really harsh comments which referred to African Americans in the 22nd Police District as "animals". It was too bad for Mr. Thrasher that a student who attends Temple University was riding January 30 with him on patrol for a school assignment when he made the comments. Shannon McDonalds, a senior journalism major, wrote about the patrol in her article for the campus paper.

If people were to react toward the article, they would perhaps respond in a negative manner. An officer who is racist is a scary person, their job is to protect and serve not to like in particular one race and bully another. The artilce gave a lot of information, including people’s comments on McDonalds' article wrote on the the temple website.

By Bryant C.