All posts tagged "Racist"

A MAGA congressman's attempt to defend his wing from accusations of racism backfired after online critics laid into him.

Rep. Brandon Gill (R-TX) took to X with a post that featured a picture of him with a serious expression and one of his quotes pulled and in bold.

"The left has one debate tactic: call you a racist and pray you shut up," the quote read. "I never will."...

A Houston police officer was relieved of duty after she was caught in a racist rant on social media, according to reports on Wednesday.

The Houston Police Department was investigating Officer Ashley Gonzalez after she posted a video telling an alleged story about her wallet almost getting stolen and using the n-word multiple times, TMZ reported. She also made several disturbing comments about racial discrimination and slavery throughout the clip.

"Y’all don’t know how good it felt to say n---- out loud. Oh my God, I felt like I was back in the Marine Corps," said Gonzalez, who served in the Marines from 2019 to 2023, according to Click2Houston.com....

Police in the UK are hunting for a MAGA influencer dubbed "Rolex Karen" and her financier husband after the couple were reportedly involved in a racist tirade last month targeting a woman with her baby in a stroller.

Detectives in London say the couple were involved in a reported assault and racial abuse incident. They released an image of them in a British Transport Police poster, The Daily Beast reported Tuesday.

The couple are reportedly MAGA influencer Melissa Rein Lively and her husband, financier Philip Ostermann, according to The Daily Mail....

A leaked MAGA chat is revealing that a Trump administration nominee for a whistleblower agency has reportedly used a racist epithet in texts, called for MLK Jr. Day to be "tossed into the seventh circle of hell," and says he has "a Nazi streak," according to a Monday report from Politico.

Paul Ingrassia, who is slated for a Senate confirmation hearing on Thursday, is President Donald Trump's nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel. He reportedly made these comments in a group chat with about half a dozen Republican strategists and influencers.

“MLK Jr. was the 1960s George Floyd and his ‘holiday’ should be ended and tossed into the seventh circle of hell where it belongs,” Ingrassia wrote in January 2024, Politico reports. ...

A New York jurist who reportedly bragged openly about pulling a loaded gun on a Black man in his courtroom almost a decade ago was booted from the bench.

The New York State Court of Appeals, which is the state's highest court, ruled on Thursday to uphold a recommendation from last year by the state’s Commission on Judicial Conduct to rid Robert J. Putorti from his position as Whitehall village town judge.

“We have never had a situation other than this case, where a judge — with or without justification — pointed a gun at a litigant in a courthouse,” Robert Tembeckjian, the commission’s administrator and counsel, told the New York Times, and atomizing the 2015 episode as “a very singular act of misconduct.”...

Prosecutors on Wednesday said charges have been dismissed against two men accused in the grisly California killing of a 25-year-old woman because the officers who led the investigation were implicated in a racist text scandal, The San Francisco Chronicle reports.

Ashton Montalvo, 32, and Deangelo Boone, 39, had been charged with arson and mutilation in the death of Mykaella Sharlman, whose body was found along an Antioch (Contra Costa County) hiking trail last year.

Her body was found around 5:36 a.m. Oct. 17 by Antioch police....