By Jennifer Borrasso\CBS News
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Pittsburgh leaders are denouncing a video that shows an Allegheny County Jail corrections officer spewing racist and hateful comments.
Brian Davis has been suspended after the video popped up on social media last week and went viral. The video features Davis holding a baseball bat wrapped in barbed wire that says “[N-word] beater.”
The video was not recorded at the jail, and it was not immediately clear who recorded it, when it was recorded, or if Davis was employed as a corrections officer at the time.
At-large Allegheny County Council Member Bethany Hallam told KDKA on Monday that Davis has worked for the jail for five years and currently works in intake.
She said she reached out to Warden Trevor Wingard on Sunday.
“To know that this person was responsible for keeping them safe in that facility, and he had these horrible and disgusting views, it’s disappointing to me,” Hallam said. “I’m happy that it got out there, that we now know how he’s been thinking this whole time.” READ MORE…
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