Racism between police officers and young black men is nothing new, which is why when Timothy McDermott and Jerome Finnigan decided to snap a picture – believed to have been taken between 1999 to 2003 – of a black suspect in a compromising position, it caught up to them in 2013.

In the photograph an unidentified black man lays on the floor with deer antlers attached to his head as the two police officers were holding rifles, kneeled beside him.

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This photograph was handed over to the city in 2013. During a vote, the decision to fire McDermott and suspended Finnigan was made. The officials stated that, “Appearing to treat an African American man not as a human being but as a hunted animal is disgraceful and shocks the conscience.”

Police Superintendent Gary McCarthy stated that the photo “is disgusting, and the despicable actions of these two former officers have no place in our police department or in our society. As the superintendent of this department, and a resident of our city, I will not tolerate this kind of behavior, and that is why these officers do not work for the Chicago Police Department today. I fired one of the officers and would have fired the other if he hadn’t already been fired by the time I found out about the picture. Our residents deserve better than this, as do the thousands of good men and women in this department.”

Here is the kicker, because me myself was wondering of the posing going on in the phone, the black male was arrested by the two officers for possession of marijuana. The small amount is the reason he dodged and arrest, so according to the officers, he posed willingly for the picture.

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