Memphis police camera rollout slowed by technical problems

Both Memphis Police Department officers suspended over the racist Snapchat image will be off of the schedule without pay until their respective department hearings are held.

It shows a gun pointed at a black person emoji.

It was posted on the same day five Dallas police officers were killed by a sniper at a protest over the deaths of Philando Castile and Alton Sterling, two black men who were gunned down by cops last week.

News outlets report interim police director Michael Rallings announced the second phase of camera installments is being delayed because the department did not anticipate the technical problems. “We are certainly responsible for the decisions we make, and we are held to a higher standard”.

“Yeah. I would have done 5”, Venable wrote during a Facebook conversation, according to police in a statement Thursday evening. Rules that include the data and information Memphis police officers share on personal websites and social media platforms.

Being unwilling to say for certain, then and there, that this disgusting photograph doesn’t violate that rule is like, after someone punches a baby in the head, saying, “We’ll have to consult the rule book on baby-punching, and see if this qualifies as a violation”.

“The image is disgusting and will not be tolerated”, Rallings.

“The fact that it could have been a Memphis police officer just blew me away, and again we deal with these things”, Rallings said. “At this point two MPD officers have been relieved of duty”. “This is a time to heal for all of us”.

Metro police officer Anthony Venable was decommissioned after he made a Facebook post referencing the police-involved shooting in Falcon Heights, Minn., pending the results of an internal investigation, the newspaper reported.

But the Memphis police department has a history of racial tension among its ranks.

Venable claimed he was being sarcastic in the post.

Yolanda Jones is a police reporter at The Commercial Appeal.