The Racially Charged Ferguson Emails Have Been Released

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One staff member was fired and 2 placed on administrative leave due to racist and religiously biased emails. According to The Washington Post, the emails were sent and received by Mary Ann Twitty, who was Ferguson’s court clerk, as well as former Ferguson police captain Rick Henke and former police sergeant William Mudd.

The trio were removed from their jobs after the United States Department of Justice discovered the e-mails.

The emails were sent between 2008 and 2011 and were mostly insensitive jokes. Some of them include jokes about President Barack Obama. Here’s is one below:

To read the emails check out the Washington Post