Leaked Audio: A Police Chief Fantasized About 'Fucking Up' a Racial Justice Protester

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November 12, 2022
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Mother Jones illustration; Thomas Graning/AP; Jacob Morch/Unsplash Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.A Mississippi police chief has been caught on tape bragging that he crashed a nonviolent protest and thought about assaulting its Black organizer, who had criticized him on social media. 'I thought about fucking him up right then,' Chief Kenneth Collins said of activist Marquell Bridges, in a conversation recorded earlier this year.

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