Black Information Network: “A white jail employee has been suspended after a viral video showed him holding a bat labeled with a racial slur, per The Root.

Brian Davis, an employee at the Allegheny County Jail (ACJ) in Pittsburgh since 2018, was caught in a now-deleted video wearing a Patriots sweatshirt and holding a baseball bat wrapped in barbed wire. The words ‘n****r beater’ were etched on the bat, sparking outrage from the public.

‘I really, really am afraid to think of if that bat has been used before,’ Tanisha Long, an organizer with the Abolitionist Law Center, said in a statement. ‘He needs to go. He needs to do some soul-searching and figure out what it is about Black people that he does not like. But I also think we need to talk to every single person in that jail who has had an encounter with him.'”

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