Racist Facebook posts put Twin Falls Police on defensive

[TexasTowelie]

TWIN FALLS — Police departments around the country were reeling last month after a study exposed racist social media posts from officers in eight departments, including Twin Falls.

But police and other public officials here say they don’t know why the report lumped Twin Falls in with the other cities since only nine social media posts from Twin Falls were included in the database of racist posts and six of them turned out to be from someone who wasn’t a police officer.

Police Chief Craig Kingsbury said the remaining three posts are relatively minor and don’t reflect racist attitudes from the officers.

The Plain View Project said it looked at social media accounts from 2,900 officers and 600 retired officers from police departments in Philadelphia; York, Pennsylvania; Dallas, Texas; Denison, Texas; St. Louis; Phoenix; Lake County, Florida; and Twin Falls.

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