Prince George’s County Executive Rushern Baker supports the police chief’s panel to review the department’s internal practices to ensure fairness.
Baker released a statement Friday, a day after Chief Hank Stawinski addressed some racially charged photos filed in a complaint about department discrimination filed with the Department of Justice.
“I support Chief Stawinski’s formation of an outside panel to review alleged acts of racial discrimination within our police department,” Baker said in his statement. “I believe the only way to improve race relations in any organization is to acknowledge and address the issues head on.”
One photo showed the locker of a black officer in the special operations division. The word “color” in “color guard” was crossed out and replaced with “African-American.”
Another photo shows the face of a black man taped to a training mannequin at a police training facility. An Afro wig rests at its foot.
Both of those incidents are under investigation, Stawinski said.
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