US EditionCounty Jail Corrections Officer Suspended for Racist Video | News Channel 3-12
ALLEGHENY COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA, JUL 22 – Brian Davis was suspended after a video showed him making racist threats with a barbed wire bat, prompting an internal investigation by Allegheny County Jail officials.
- Early Tuesday, the jail administration suspended Brian Davis after a video surfaced showing him making racist remarks while holding a baseball bat wrapped in barbed wire.
- Last week, a video of Davis went viral on social media, and he has served five years in the jail’s intake department, Bethany Hallam said on Monday.
- Footage shows Davis issuing threats against Black people as the video captures a baseball bat emblazoned with `N-word beater`.
- Jail spokesperson Jesse Geleynse said Davis was suspended Monday and that the jail has zero tolerance for racist or abusive behavior; authorities are investigating.
- In her statement to KDKA, Hallam called for all grievances against Davis to be investigated and urged a review of the jail’s employee ethics policy.
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