A police detective in Illinois has faced disciplinary action this week, after he was recorded on video telling a teenager he was being detained because he’s white.
Footage of the controversial encounter surfaced on Facebook on Monday, and has since gone viral with more than 85,000 views.
Dezi Baczek,18, who recorded the video, was among a group of teens who went to the local pawnshop in Lake Villa, a suburb of Chicago, to sell an ‘item’ so the group could buy her brother a book that he wanted to read…How thoughtful…
When the group of millennials exited the shop, they found Detective Gomez waiting out in the parking lot for them. Immediately, the group of teens were ordered to sit down or face being arrested.
Baczek told NBC 5, “I was yelled at to sit down”.
When asked ‘what for?.. That is when she started filming.
Police said the detective was conducting a theft investigation at the time and was questioning the group of teens. One unseen teen in the video questions why he’s being detained— he asked Gomez, “Is it because I’m a teenager? Because I have baggy pants on?”
Detective Gomez was seen storming off, then spun around and yelled back, ”because you’re white."
In response to the incident, Lake Villa Police Chief Craig Somerville said such behavior will not be tolerated, said the Daily Herald.
“We are a professional department with high standards and we value our relationship with the public, particularly our youth,” Somerville said in a statement.
“Our relationships are built upon mutual understanding and trust and this type of behavior contradicts that.”
Somerville said Gomez became suspicious of the group when they were accompanied by the suspect of a theft investigation at the pawn shop and another member gave officers a fake name. That person was charged with obstructing police.
The chief did not directly acknowledge what was said in the video, but he did note it as inappropriate and unprofessional.
Somerville said in a statement, “Gomez admitted his words were poorly chosen and insensitive and he immediately regretted what he had said. The Lake Villa Police Department does not condone this type of behavior of its officers.Gomez has been disciplined for behavior unbecoming an officer. He will be assisting me with speaking to the parents and teens involved in this incident.”
scum keeps floating to the top...
Could it be because scum is at the top too?
It's OK to keep a known racist on the police force as long as he's a brown turd.
lol not for long
Yet another reason to ditch CHI if you are white and/or actually work.
Interesting how much power 1 cop has over kids in the US, in Europe they'd troll the shit out of him or just hang him off the nearest lampost.
Don't forget about the Somali Muslim diversity hire that killed a white woman - for what we still don't know:
http://www.cairco.org/news/somali-cop-kills-pajama-clad-white-woman-occu...
In the coming festivities, you skin color will be your uniform.
Forward (over the cliff)!
Kids, to stay out of trouble you simply say: Call my parents, I'm not comfortable. Every BS they use to intimidate you, you say: Call my parents I'm not comfortable. Watch the little power trip bitches back down when they know you didn't do anything, they don't want to deal with your parents.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/12/01/walmart-selling-antif...
The response from the department / boss is unimpressive.
As for behavior unbecoming an officer I agree, but it's more serious than that...
Yes, confrontational, aggressive, and enjoys power way too much. It looks and sounds as though he is unstable. Hopefully the second officer was more steady.
In some ways we expect too much of our police. They have a difficult, very unpleasant, and almost impossible job. People talk as though more police are needed to stop crime. This is not true.
Only the criminal can stop crime because only the criminal can choose to not do the crime.
"Kids, to stay out of trouble you simply say: Call my parents, I'm not comfortable."
I'm 60... can I still use that ?? Oh & my parents are "off planet".....
Charles, is that you? I thought you were dead.
Ya I never did hear anything else about that case. They sure were proud of their diversity hire.
It can't be overstated, imagine if it had been a white cop with a bunch of black kids. They wouldn't be talking about anything else on every single news channel.
Maybe we should start a race war, so as to be constructive about the whole thing..
"in Europe they'd troll the shit out of him or just hang him off the nearest lampost."
Try that here and the (likely obese) cop will just shoot you and say that you were trying to get his gun if he doesn't want to deal with you. I'm betting that European police aren't trained to be trigger-happy like they are here. Most police train de-escalation, it's the opposite here. US cops can turn the most simple thing into a life and death situation in a split second.
I got $5 on him going on permanent leave within 49.5 hrs
According to the article his punishment is to have to apologize to the kids and their parents. And then continue as before but not be open about it.
He is a white person hater, it affects his actions as he carries a gun and a badge. That makes him dangerous.
But lets keep welcoming all of latin america and the muslims into the country. Where the latins gain the advantage they will see themselves as Americans only and will show great generosity to whites. /s
Tejas just needs the right spark or firebrand leader to emerge. The latins already dominate the rural police depts and sheriff depts.. I've heard latins say their turn is coming and not in a nice tone.
They're not messing around with the 'Reconquista', and they are winning.
We left this country unlocked and with the keys in the ignition, in a bad part of town.
It's already up on blocks, and soon the rest of the scavengers will come for all the metal.
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duh
Yup, scum like Gomez, BLM, antifa, democrats, republicans....
So detaining someone for being white is NOT racist. It's just "unprofessional."
This would be national news if instead of 'white' he said 'black' and the teens were black.
I need some facts. What were the kids pawning? Was it stolen? Does this pawn shop regularly receive stolen goods? If yes, speak to the kids parents. If No, maybe your city attorney should speak to the kids attorney about a settlement to make this infringement go away.
Nail him to the wall.
Fubar
gomez? i want to make a rayciss joke so bad right now.
Try Sanchez
Gonzales: There is one question, Inspector Callahan: Why do they call you "Dirty Harry"?
De Georgio: Ah that's one thing about our Harry, doesn't play any favorites! Harry hates everybody: Limeys, Micks, Hebes, Fat Dagos, Niggers, Honkies, Chinks, you name it.
Gonzales: How does he feel about Mexicans?
De Georgio: Ask him.
Harry Callahan: Especially Spics.
Racist jokes? This is my favorite...
So this plane is travelling from the U.S. to Europe, when a rumbling sound is heard, accompanied by the sounds of metal grinding.
The pilot comes on the intercom and says to the passengers that the plane has just lost an engine.
A few moment later another engine is lost.
The pilot comes back on the intercom and says that they have to lighten the load as they are losing some fuel. He asks all the passengers to get their luggage from the overheads and get it to the stewardesses so it can be tossed out of the plane.
With the luggage off the plane, things seem to be going okay for a half an hour, when suddenly the third engine bursts into flames.
The pilot says in order to make land some of the passengers need to jump out of the plane for the rest to survive. But in order to be fair, the pilot says we will go in alphabetical order.
"Are there any African Americans on board?"
"Are there any blacks on board?"
"Are there any colored people on board?"
A black man turns to his son and says "Son, We're Niggers and I'll be damned if we get throw off before the Mexicans."
That is an old one as most jets do not have 4 engines anymore, do they. ;)
747...
Dude, it's called a joke
Is it racists to only refer to it as a race joke?
A black Jewish boy runs home from school one day and asks his father, “Daddy, am I more Jewish or more black?” The dad replies, “Why do you want to know, son?” “Because a kid at school is selling a bike for $50 and I want to know if I should talk him down to $40 or just steal it!”
i wanna hear it..free speech n all
That's mighty white of you. [/Dirty Harry]
There it is.
The Lobotomy will ALL be televised...
Race war a comin'.
moar pleez
Yep. I reckon it's already here if you have been paying attention.
Zerohedge now ends our Michael Flynn special coverage and returns you to your regularly scheduled programming of racial divisiveness.
racial divisiveness? You mean like Obama attending a church for 20 years he handpicked whose racist reverend and congregation gave a lifetime achievement award to Louis Farrakhan who preaches in his church that all blue-eyed white people are devils or how some whites need to be killed along with their children then dug up to make sure they are dead and killed again. ? racial divisiveness like that?
No no no NO. Let's make it simple.
A Chicago cop openly admitting he is detaining people because they are white? NOT racist or divisive.
ZH publicizing the video recording of the foregoing? Horrible, terrible, very very bad, flat out evil racist divisiveness.
I stopped by to repent for my whiteness but now you can just forget about it.
Fuck you. Mow my lawn.
Yez master but let me spray some clippings strengthener (Roundup) on it first.
Whites won't start burning towns up, and looting property over injustice. Notice a difference, anyone ?
Have a listen to Race, Evolution and Behaviour. By Rushden on YouTube. Scientific study as to the difference in violence , IQ, etc between races.
Until the results of this data are taken into account, don't expect crime rates to improve among the biggest offenders.
I mean, many can't even accept listening to this study , so how on earth can any change happen ?
Races are different. Anthropology states there are 5 sets of humans , further divided into 15 subsets, but I guess they're all Nazis for sharing their scientific findings ???
Ohh well... Roll out the BLM protests.