Current Events > Ohio police used racial slurs to refer to black OSU players

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what they think when they believe no one can hear them

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- A Cleveland police detective used the "n-word" and another racial epithet when talking about Ohio State football players and specifically used the word when addressing black quarterbacks, according to a police internal investigation.

Det. John Kraynik , who works in the predominantly black Fourth District, was previously issued a written letter of re-instruction, a lesser penalty than a written reprimand, and ordered to get sensitivity training as a result of the texts messages found during an unrelated internal investigation.

Cleveland Police Chief Calvin Williams handed down the discipline at a time when the city is looking to improve relationships between a majority white police force and a majority black population.

The new details about the context of his use of racial slurs were revealed in the internal affairs investigation files released to cleveland.com three months after the initial requested.

The investigation into Kraynik, and another Cleveland police officer disciplined for sending a racist text, began as internal affairs looked into accusations that a now-retired police officer sexually assaulted a woman.

Prosecutors told investigators there was not enough evidence to pursue criminal charges against that officer, who resigned during the investigation.

Internal affairs investigators, however, conducted a search warrant on that officer's phone and found racist texts sent to the officer from both Kraynik and Third District Patrolman Aaron Pettit , the records say.

The Cleveland Police Patrolman's Association filed a federal lawsuit against the police department, saying the city had no right to punish the officers because Kraynik and Pettit weren't the target of the investigation, that they had sent the text messages on their personal cellphones and that they had a First Amendment right to free speech.

If Ohio State uses police protection for games, that needs to change
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i thought you meant osu.
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