BART officer quits amid racism scandal, loses chance at a new job

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BART officer quits amid racism scandal, loses chance at a new job
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“The language in the video is deeply offensive and has no place at the BART Police Department.'

The BART railway system in San Francisco. A man applying to become a police officer in San Ramon resigned from his job as a BART officer this week after a video surfaced online of him allegedly using racist language.police officer resigned earlier this week after a video surfaced online that allegedly showed him using racist language. A day later, his application to join the San Ramon Police Department was dismissed.

that a news report from Monday about Washam’s resignation from BART caught the department’s eye, and said an investigation revealed that the same man was working his way through the hiring process to become a San Ramon police officer . The person speaking makes a joke about Jewish people, too, saying, “They would send you straight to the ovens for s—t like that.” He also derisively mimics a Mexican accent. Pictures shown in the video — purportedly of Washam — show a person in a ski mask holding a flag bearing the insignia of a division of the Waffen-SS, the combat branch of the German military under the Nazis.

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