By Kelly Weill
Before he was accused of beating a handcuffed African-American woman,
a Chicago Police sergeant registered a racist URL: n**gadown.com.
George
Granias, a sergeant at the heart of a recently settled police brutality
lawsuit, purchased at least two websites with racial slurs in their
titles, his alleged victim’s lawyer says. The domain names include URLs
like n**gaguns.com, the legal team first told CBS Chicago.
An investigation by The Daily Beast revealed a series of other domains
registered to Granias’ name and address, including “murdertech.com,”
“necroarmy.com,” and in a jab to Illinois’ former governor,
“patquinnsucks.com”.
In December 2013, Granias registered
n**gadown.com, internet records show. Three months later, police
arrested Patasa Johnson, a Chicago woman, at a traffic stop. Johnson’s
arresting officer accused her of driving drunk, a charge she denied, and
which was later dropped. The officer cuffed her in the back of a squad
car and drove her to a police station, where “Granias grabbed [Johnson]
from the back of the car,” and roughly escorted her into the station,
according to a lawsuit Johnson filed against the city in 2015. “Inside
the station, Defendant Granias beat [Johnson] while [Johnson] was in
hand-cuffs.”
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Source: The Daily Beast
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