New Orleans cop suspended indefinitely after online rant about Trayvon Martin killing

By Brendan McCarthy, The Times-Picayune
NOLA.com
Mar. 27, 2012

A white New Orleans police officer involved in the recent fatal police shooting of a young black man has been suspended after posting comments below an online news story in which he said that a black youth in Florida who was killed by a civilian deserved to die because he acted like "a thug." Officer Jason Giroir wrote, "Act like a Thug Die like one!" below an article posted Sunday on wwltv.com about local citizens rallying to protest the fatal shooting last month of Trayvon Martin, an unarmed 17-year-old who was fatally shot while wearing a hooded sweatshirt and walking through a gated community.

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