'Hit Black People in the Liver’: LAPD Cops Caught In Secret Recordings Bragging About Racist Abuse and Targeting Black Citizens
Several Los Angeles police officers are at the center of a complaint alleging they made racist, sexist, and homophobic comments about their colleagues,
atlantablackstar.com Several Los Angeles police officers are at the center of a complaint alleging they made racist, sexist, and homophobic comments about their colleagues, potential recruits, and L.A. citizens.
According to the L.A. Times, a 10-year veteran of the Los Angeles Police Department secretly recorded dozens of conversations in the department’s recruitment office between March and October 2024 that captured his colleagues making the bigoted remarks.
Roughly 90 recordings reveal several officers and supervisors making racist statements and even targeting their colleagues with derogatory homophobic language, according to the Times, citing a complaint filed on Jan. 5.
According to the complaint, a Latina officer who once discussed how to physically fight Black citizens told her colleagues, “You hit Black people in the liver; I heard they got weak livers.”
That same female officer was also recorded telling a Black officer that “Black people like grape soda” and that Black people drinking Kool-Aid “go by color, not flavor.”
During that conversation, a Latino officer reportedly added, “Black people enjoy watermelon in between basketball.” The complaint states that that officer also bragged that he once called the cops on some Black children who were selling chocolate in his neighborhood, saying, “They do not belong here.”
The Black officer who was reportedly part of the “grape soda” conversation, was also reported to have called Black people “monkeys,” and would vocalize his thoughts while watching television news reports about crimes allegedly involving Black people with comments like, “What’s new?” and “Those people are horrible.”
