A white police chief rants on Facebook, and a Louisiana town hears echoes of its racist past
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JONESVILLE, La. — Sunday sermons had just ended when residents of this river town learned that a lone black gunman had killed three police officers in Baton Rouge. Before the news could sink in, a profane message appeared on Facebook.
“Hey Mr. Bulls--- president,” it began. “When are you going to grow a f---ing pair. And tell it like it is. These are terrorist. That have declared f---ing war on my brother. (White police officers) enough is enough.”
The author was Skylar Dore, Jonesville’s white chief of police. The post instantly cleaved the community in two. Many black residents, who make up 70 percent of Jonesville, saw it as a racist rant. Some whites defended Dore, saying he had the right to speak his mind. Two days later, the majority-black town council fired the young chief.
If his post had stirred anger, then his firing provoked outrage. Dore received encouragement, even employment offers, from across the country. But he also received death threats. When a friend organized a march on Dore’s behalf, the sheriff persuaded him to call it off for fear it could turn into a shootout.
Today, Jonesville remains on edge. Some whites think the town’s black officials are putting political correctness ahead of public safety. Some blacks see ugly hints of the racial violence that has long haunted the Deep South in Dore’s profane post and the online debates that followed.
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Little man with gunz. 
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At least he was smart enough to put his white power ink in a private place, as far as I can tell.
