A gun possession trial accidentally revealed the existence of a Facebook group where the NYC police officers blatantly used hate speech directed against minorities. The racist comments were made mostly about the West Indian American Day Parade and its participants being called “savages” and “animals” that should be left to kill each other.

Benjamin Moore, a lawyer preparing for the defense of one of his clients, searched Facebook for the profile of a police officer who arrested him.

Browsing his profile, a group that Sgt. Dustin Edwards was a member of called “No More West Indian Day Detail” caught his eye.

After reading about 70 printed pages of conversation on the group’s wall, Moore could hardly believe some of the things he read.

One of the members, for example, wrote “I say have the parade one more year and when they all gather drop a bomb and wipe them all out”, but that wasn’t the end of highly offensive and racist comments towards the parade goers.

What was even more shocking is that more than 60% of group members’ names matched the names of people working in the NYC police department.

A couple of days after Moore found the group it vanished from Facebook, but he made a digital copy of it earlier. While it’s hard to prove that these profiles actually belong to NYC police officers and all cops so far have denied it, it’s still a shame to know that many people in the force are racially biased.