Jul 30, 2009

A Boston cop insisted he was not a racist as he apologized for calling Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates a “banana-eating jungle monkey” in a mass e-mail.

“I did not mean to offend anyone,” Officer Justin Barrett told WCVB-TV.

Boston cop Justin Barrett suspended for calling Henry Louis Gates a ‘jungle monkey’ (via nickdouglas)
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