Four Jersey Cops Could Lose Jobs Over Rap Video
Including the police union president in Irvington
Four Irvington police officers who starred in a controversial music video that featured the town's police union president spouting what some have called racially insensitive and homophobic remarks are facing internal affairs charges and could be fired, officials said.
Officer Maurice Gattison — who went by the handle "Gat The Great" and called himself a "felon for life" while rapping in two separate videos — and three other officers were charged with conduct unbecoming a police officer, an infraction that could cost them their jobs, Irvington Police Director Joseph Santiago said.
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I don't know which is more amusing: The idea one might be offended by "racially insensitive and homophobic remarks" in a RAP VIDEO, or the idea that there is such a thing as "conduct unbecoming a police officer"...
Amazing they can beat, rob, etc etc but say something about gays and its a firing offense?
Yet beatings and robbery can seriously damage you while "words can never hurt you," as my mother used to say...