On the 18th (local time), the US Cherokee County Sheriff’s Office said at a press conference the previous day that it had dismissed the controversial Inspector Jay Baker (left), who caused the controversy by saying “it was a bad day for him” over a suspect in the Atlanta shootings. [로이터=연합뉴스]
The controversial Cherokee County Sheriff said it was “a bad day for him” over a suspect in the Atlanta shootings of the United States, apologizing and replacing the spokesman who made the remarks.
Cherokee Sheriff’s Office “Sorry for hurting my heart.”
“It was an insensitive remark, but it wasn’t intentional.”
The spokesman for the Sheriff’s Office was also replaced.
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On the 18th (local time), the Cherokee Sheriff’s Office issued a statement, and NBC reported that the spokesman, Captain Jay Baker, said “I’m sorry for hurting my heart” for the remarks made.
On the previous day, at a press conference explaining the incident, Inspector Baker made a remark about the suspect, as if defending the suspect, saying, “He was very exhausted and in a dead end situation.” “Yesterday was a really bad day for him, and this is what he did,” he said.
Then, among the netizens, “It was a really bad day for the victims and their families (not the suspects),” and criticism poured out.
Cherokee’s office admitted that it was “insensitive and inappropriate remarks,” but clarified that “it was not intended to ignore the seriousness of the tragedy or to express sympathy for the suspect.”
Her colleague, Sheriff Frank Reynolds, advocated, “Because Baker had a personal relationship with the Asian community, he was dedicated to the local people.” According to local media, the Atlanta Journal Constitution (AJC), Captain Baker has a half-brother adopted in Vietnam and is now a Cherokee County judge.
Later, the Cherokee Sheriff’s Office said Captain Baker had withdrawn from public affairs, but the controversy does not easily subside.
Bianca Jotisch, head of the Georgia branch of the Asian-Pacific American Women’s Forum, pointed out that “as a result of not acknowledging that the country has structural racial discrimination, people like Officer Baker are free to inspire anti-Asian sentiment.” did.
Viet Tan Nguyen, a Pulitzer Prize-winning Vietnamese-American writer, mentioned on Twitter that Baker shared and promoted a T-shirt on Facebook that read “Corona 19: Chinese imported virus” in the past. He said, “I wonder if it was related to this that I said,’It was a really bad day for the suspect’.”
Korean-American actor Aden Jo also posted on Twitter and accused him of saying, “This may not be a hate crime, not because it was a bad day for the suspect, but because you (Baker) are racist.”
![On the 18th (local time), a petition requesting the resignation of Captain Jay Baker, who made a controversial remark in connection with the Atlanta shootings, was posted on the US petition site Change.org, and more than 12,000 people signed it within a day. did. [체인지닷오알지]](https://i0.wp.com/pds.joins.com/news/component/htmlphoto_mmdata/202103/19/593f47d9-dc88-430e-bf57-27bcd8e41723.jpg?w=560&ssl=1)
On the 18th (local time), a petition requesting the resignation of Captain Jay Baker, who made a controversial remark in connection with the Atlanta shootings, was posted on the US petition site Change.org, and more than 12,000 people signed it within a day. did. [체인지닷오알지]
Meanwhile, a petition requesting Captain Baker’s resignation was posted on Change.org, the representative online petition site in the United States, and more than 12,000 people signed it in one day.
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