‘Disgusting’: Florida Cop Quickly Joins Unemployment Line After Making ‘Offensive’ Remark About Black People Then Feigned Ignorance About Its Racist Nature

A police officer who was fired for making a racially insensitive remark to another cop explained to a review board why he wouldn’t apologize for the remark. Brent Clark, a now-former police officer of the St. Petersburg Police Department, made the remark to one of his colleagues on April 18 while they were working at an evidence processing station in police headquarters, the Tampa Bay Times reported. During Clark’s conversation with Officer Scott Blanchette, “Clark lowered his voice, asking if the firearms seized by Officer Blanchette were taken from a Black man’s house and said they smell like an old Black man’s house,” according to a summary of the findings from an internal police investigation of the incident. St. Petersburg Police Department patrol cars (Photo: Facebook/St. Petersburg Police Department) Blanchette did not immediately report the remark to supervisors but did tell other officers, describing the remark as “offensive, derogatory, hurtful and disgusting.” Once a supervisor was notified, the agency’s Office of Professional Standards launched an investigation, and a Command Review Board met this week to examine the allegations against Clark. The board ultimately found Clark’s conduct “unbecoming of a police officer.” During the review, police said that Clark “did not...