Jail Employee Suspended After Video Of Him Holding 'N***er Beater' Bat

A white jail employee in Pittsburgh was suspended after a viral video showed him holding a bat labeled with a racial slur. Via The Root:

A Pittsburgh jail is under fire after a video showing an employee spewing racial slurs has gone viral. Now, leaders in the area are calling for the white man in question to be fired, but that hasn’t happened just yet.

The Allegheny County Jail (ACJ) employee named Brian Davis was featured in a now-deleted Instagram video showing him wearing a Patriots sweatshirt while holding a baseball bat wrapped in barbed wire. Written on the bat was “n****r beater,” which is expectedly sparking outrage.

According to the Safety and Justice Challenge, Black inmates at ACJ make up roughly 67 percent of the total population. With this, Davis’ actions have raised many concerns for activists. “I really, really am afraid to think of if that bat has been used before,” Tanisha Long, Abolitionist Law center organizer told 11 News.

“He needs to go. He needs to do some soul-searching and figure out what it is about Black people that he does not like,” Long continued. “But I also think we need to talk to every single person in that jail who has had an encounter with him.”

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