‘Worthless Ghetto Mutts’: Chicago Cop’s 20-Year Job Is On the Line After Being Exposed for ‘Hundreds’ of Hateful Social Media Posts Targeting Minorities, Claims He Can’t Remember Writing Them

A veteran Chicago police detective faces termination after posting hundreds of offensive comments on social media that targeted Blacks, Muslims, immigrants, and LGBTQ people over five years until his actions were uncovered by a watchdog group. Shawn Popow, a 20-year employee with the Chicago Police Department, found himself in hot water last November when he was notified by the Civilian Office of Police Accountability, or COPA, which had been monitoring his online activities since 2018 after Popow began posting incendiary content on his Facebook and Twitter accounts. When COPA personnel confronted Popow with the evidence, he denied holding any racist or bigoted beliefs and attributed his inability to recall some of the posts to memory problems stemming from a medical condition. Chicago Detective Shawn Popow, right, and Officer Ricardo Ocampo, left. (Photo: Twitter/SheepDogCPD) Now, a year after the scandal surfaced, Chicago PD Superintendent Larry Snelling, who is Black, issued a letter this week indicating that he is in the process of firing Popow, though the officer had not been officially dismissed yet, according to multiple news reports. Previously, COPA issued a 36-page report on Popow’s vitriol on social media, where he regularly expressed racial hatred and extremist views on gender...