Ohio Officer Targeted in ‘KKK Joke’ Speaks Out For The First Time Says He Plans to File Lawsuit
Police Officer Keith Pool is speaking out for the first time since a video of his boss caught him leaving a “Ku Klux Klan” note on the officer’s raincoat. Pool is now taking legal action. A virtual news conference with WKYC on Nov. 11, the Ohio officer appeared with his attorneys from Peiffer Wolf Carr Kane & Conway law firm, where the he revealed the details surrounding the June incident. Along with other mistreatments he endured at the hands of former Police Chief Anthony Campo.
“Even when I watch it now, I am in disbelief that this happened to me,” Pool said. The initial video that went viral had no audio, showed Campo placing the offensive note on Pool’s coat and him finding i. “It was so demeaning that in the moment I just didn’t know how to react to it. I felt like I’d been hit with a sledgehammer,” he added. The officer says when he got back to his desk, Campo, who retired on June 29, 2021, the same day he was placed on leave, called the other officers, all of whom are white, to see the note.
“My exact words were, are you serious? And I just looked at him and left it,” veteran cop said. “What else can you say to the chief of police who’s done something so heinous? It’s so awful.”
Campo said it was all just a joke, however, Pool said he lost a great-uncle to KKK violence, told the news station he didn’t find it funny. “It was not a funny joke. It was offensive and humiliating beyond anything I’ve ever experienced in my entire career and my life,” the officer said. “Not only did he hurt me. He hurt my family. He hurt my kids.”
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