A white Louisville, Kentucky police officer resigned after a slew of racist messages instructing a recruit to shoot black juveniles if they are caught smoking marijuana were revealed. The messages also were extremely sexual in nature urging the recruit to sleep with the juveniles' parents.

The former Assistant Police Chief Todd Shaw resigned last year after his racist suggestions about how to apprehend black people were made known by Jefferson County Attorney Mike O’Connell. A recruit asked Shaw via Facebook in September and October of 2016 about the right way to deal with this particular situation.

“F*** the right thing,” Shaw allegedly responded in a message. “If black shoot them.”

And as for what to tell the parents of the juveniles, Shaw said: “… call their (pa)rents … if mom is hot then f*** her … if dad is hot then handcuff him and make him suck my d***,” according to O’Connell’s letter to the police department.

Shaw continued, “Unless daddy is black. … Then shoot him.”

After the police department was made aware of the messages, they were slow about firing the officer. According to WDRB, the department suspended Shaw while they conducted an investigation into the messages. Shaw had been an officer on the force for 20 years and according to Shaw’s attorney, Michael Burns, he had been kind to everyone.

But that may not be the case. In another unrelated Facebook message, Shaw told the recruit housing projects needed to be leveled.

"For years I have seen the blacks live off uss [sic] and putting them in one big housing area breeds HUGE peoblems [sic]" Shaw wrote. "We don't see a Muslim problem around here we just see lazy ass people that don't want to work and that entices more Mexicans to cross the border and take the American jobs … ."

The Louisville Courier-Journal reported that Shaw tried to keep the messages confidential after WDRB and WAVE requested them under the state's Open Records Act. But a judge ruled this past week that they had to be made public because he is a public official.

The shocking messages will lead to possible investigations into the Metro Police Explorer Program to see if there were any signs of sexual abuse. It has also been reported that the county attorney's office said it would dismiss two dozen District Court cases in which Shaw was the sole witness, regardless of whether the defendants were black.

O'Connell told reporters Friday, Jan. 19 that Shaw was fired and the recruit was not hired.

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