Who is Sam Dobbins? Police chief fired after caught using racial slurs, bragging about kill count
Robert Lee Hooker gave the recording filled allegedly with racist remarks and homophobic slurs to an organization called JULIAN
July 23, 2022
The supervising officer on tape has been identified as Sam Dobbins. He reportedly can be heard boasting about killing 13 people, saying, “I shot that [N-word] 119 times.” Robert Lee Hooker gave the recording allegedly filled with racist taunts and homophobic slurs to an organization called JULIAN. The civil rights and international human rights organization then shared the tape with MCIR.
Who is Sam Dobbins?
Sam Dobbins was the head of police in Lexington, Mississippi. He was
removed from the post after his alleged recording was shared. According
to the statistics, Sam Dobbins was a White police officer in Lexington
which is an 85% majority Black town.
In the alleged recording shared by MCIR,
Dobbins can be reportedly heard talking to Hooker saying, “I have
killed 13 men in my career. In my line of duty, I have shot and killed
13 different people.” He then proceeds to detail a specific incident
revealing, “I shot that [N-word]119 times, OK? I saved 67 kids in a
school. I chased this mother**ker across the field. I got him. He was
DRT [dead right there] in the field. The vehicle was shot 319 times, but
he was hit 119 times by me.” Dobbins was later contacted for the
recording and addressing the same he said he was not aware of the tape.
When asked whether he killed 13 people in the line of duty, he replied,
“That’s something we don’t discuss, period.” When it came to slurs,
Dobbins asserted, “I don’t talk like that”, as reported by MCIR.
‘Nothing personal when I said what I said’
Before Sam Dobbins coughed up the details of his killings in the line of duty, Hooker can be reportedly heard discussing hurtful comments the former had made in his presence. “Well, if you’re looking for an apology after I gave you an apology back then, you’re barking up the wrong tree," Dobbins can be heard saying in the tape” adding, “If you gonna let some words bother you, maybe this ain’t the place for you. I didn’t mean anything personal by it when I said what I said.”
According to a video shared by Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party on Facebook, Hooker said that he decided to record because he "just got to the point where you’re not doing the people right, you’re not doing right.”
1 comment:
Sounds like Joe Bidden would have really liked him back in the day he was having breakfast with the Klan.
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