TribLive: “An Allegheny County Jail corrections officer has been suspended following the discovery of a video purportedly showing him making a racist comment about Black people while holding a baseball bat wrapped in barbed wire.

Brian Davis, who has worked at the jail since March 2020, was suspended on Monday after officials learned about the video.

In a statement, they said they are investigating.

‘The ACJ administration, from Warden (Trevor) Wingard down, expects professionalism from all jail employees,’ the jail said in a statement. ‘The jail does not tolerate racist or abusive language or behavior.’

The video, making the rounds on social media, features a man wearing a baseball hat and a New England Patriots hoodie and holding up the bat.

Jail officials told TribLive the man in the video appears to be Davis.

‘You know what this is?’ the man asks two women who can’t be seen in the video. ‘I don’t give a (expletive). (Racial epithet) beater.’

Davis was most recently assigned to the intake unit at the jail.

‘That means he’s the first face they see,’ said Tanisha Long, a community organizer with the Abolitionist Law Center, a Pittsburgh group that advocates for incarcerated people. ‘For him to be their first point of contact, that’s terrifying.’

‘You can just imagine how they’re being treated.'”

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