‘Cleaning the Floors Like I’m the F—ing Hired Ni—r’: New Jersey Cops Exposed After Racist Texts Surface; Only One Officer Fired

It started as an investigation into an officer-related car crash. But when officials began examining the texts sent that day between officers in Monmouth County, New Jersey, they came across something much more troubling. “Next I’ll be cleaning the floors or some sh– like I’m the f—ing hired ni—r or something,” an officer from the Marlboro Township (N.J.) Police Department texted. A Monmouth County police patrol vehicle and a screenshot of a text one officer sent to another. (Photos: YouTube screenshot/ABC 7) After an officer from Freehold Township, New Jersey, texted racial slurs about the Black community, another officer from the same department responded: “I’m not racist. I hate everyone. If anything, Jews is one ‘race’ I hate. I don’t have a problem with Black people. They make there (sic) own problems and names.” “One message that stands out the most is the one that says I hate ‘n’ words,” said Harrison Dillard, president of the NAACP in Hunterdon County, N.J. “It doesn’t say ‘n’ words, it says the word. There’s no ambiguity there.” Another message referred to Asians in a derogatory fashion. “Look at that g—k,” the text read. According to WABC-TV in New York, one Marlboro officer was...