Ft. Lauderdale cops fired for being racist - Some colorful language inside

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Four police officers tasked with patrolling a predominantly black neighborhood lost their jobs Friday following a five-month investigation into racially charged text messages sent from their personal phones.

Officer James Wells, 30, Officer Jason Holding, 31, and Officer Christopher Sousa, 25, were fired. Officer Alex Alvarez, 22, resigned in late January before the investigation was complete.

Among the texts were:

Holding: “Id have that noose ready”

“The panty dropper had it’s first fail. This chick was high class cuban, nada impressed her. F------ cuban elite” “I had a wet dream that you two found those two n------ in the VW and gave them the death penalty right there on the spot.”

Sousa: “Holdings we are coming and drinking all your beer and killing n------.”

Alvarez: “Jimmy what would big dad do to that n-----. Get that n----- out from under that wagon.”

Wells: “And that n----- lover in the wagon.”

Alvarez also produced a video - a mock movie trailer titled “The Hoods,” police said. The video showed images of President Barack Obama wearing a gold chain and gold tooth caps; someone wearing a Ku Klux Klansman’s hood; an African-American man being bitten by a police dog; a bloody scene and a wanted poster for “an escaped slave.”

Alvarez’s ex-fiancee emailed screenshots of the racist text messages to the police chief on Oct. 16. The couple were in a 10-month relationship before she alerted the chief about the messages that were sent between mid-September and mid-October. The ex-fiancee declined to comment late Friday.

Alvarez and Sousa are identified by the department as Hispanic; Holding and Wells are identified as white.

According to the internal affairs investigation, all four officers wrote texts that were racially offensive to African-Americans. Alvarez, Holding and Wells authored statements that maligned co-workers and Alvarez and Wells used the word “f@ggot.”

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