Former assistant police chief instructed recruit to shoot black teens if caught smoking pot

According to ABC News, a former assistant police chief in Kentucky sent racist messages to a police recruit.

One of those messages instructed the recruit to shoot black minors if they were caught smoking weed.

Jefferson County Attorney Mike O’Connell sent a letter to Prospect Mayor John Evans denouncing Todd Shaw’s “highly disturbing racist and threatening Facebook messages” to the recruit.

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According to court documents in late 2016, when the pair discussed training scenarios where the recruit was to write a paper on "the right thing to do" if he caught three juveniles smoking marijuana, Shaw stated: "F*** the right thing. If black shoot them.”

Shaw also instructed the recruit on how to handle the parents: He suggested performing sexual acts on them unless quote “daddy is black. Then shoot him.”

Shaw, who had previously worked 20 years as a Louisville officer, was suspended, then fired, from the Prospect force last year.

Shaw’s lawyer claims his client was just “playing” and that these messages were privately sent among colleagues and friends.

ABC News reports that prosecutors found the messages while investigating a case in which Shaw allegedly tried to assist another officer by improperly accessing the National Crime Information Center database.