BOSTON -- A Boston police officer was placed on administrative leave after he allegedly used a racial slur when referring to Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Boston Globe
In a mass e-mail, Officer Justin Barrett, 36, called Gates a "jungle monkey," according to a *************** source.
Barrett, who is a captain in the Massachusetts National Guard, was also suspended and condemned by the Guard for what it called a "racially insensitive e-mail."
Gates, a black Harvard scholar, was arrested at his home earlier this month on a disorderly conduct charge after he tried to budge open the door of his Cambridge home.
Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis found out about the e-mail on Tuesday and immediately stripped Barrett of his *** and badge, officials said. The e-mail was first sent to the Boston Globe and then to local members of the National Guard.
