Video: Chicago Cop Says 'Mike Brown Deserved It'

By Rachel Cromidas in News on Aug 26, 2015 2:25PM

After a video published online last week depicted a white, plainclothes police officer telling a black man that "Mike Brown deserved it," the Chicago Police Department is now investigating the cop and his racially-charged remarks.

The comment referred to Michael Brown, the black, unarmed teenage who was fatally shot by police in Ferguson, Missouri, last year, sparking national outrage and weeks of protests.

As the Sun-Times reported Tuesday night, the Chicago officer who can be seen in the video taunting a black man about how policing works is now under investigation, according to a department spokesman.

"I've got no choice but to fucking pull over black people. You don't like it, move," the officer says on the tape, published by the site Mediatakeout.com.

"We don't know what you all gonna do to us, you all might shoot us," the man responded, "We don't trust you all. You heard about Mike Brown?"

"Mike Brown deserved it," the officer, who appears in the video wearing a bullet proof vest and standing in an un-identifiable street, can be heard replying.

Police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi confirmed the investigation to the Sun-Times, saying the officer had been identified by the department, but declined to identify him to reporters. “The comments in this video are troubling and do not represent the views of the department,” Guglielmi told the Sun-Times.