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‘We are just gonna go out and start slaughtering them’: Three cops fired after racist talk of killing black residents

June 25, 2020 at 3:06 a.m. EDT
Wilmington, N.C., police fired three officers after a recording caught them using racist slurs. (Google Street View)

Sitting in his patrol car in Wilmington, N.C., Officer Michael “Kevin” Piner predicted Black Lives Matter protests would soon lead to civil war. “I’m ready,” Piner told another officer, adding that he planned to buy an assault rifle.

“We are just going to go out and start slaughtering them f------ n------,” he said.