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Three Wilmington police officers were fired on Wednesday after dash-cam footage from an officer’s patrol vehicle showed the officers engaging in racist conversations with each other, including one conversation that was explicitly violent.  The conversations occurred in early June, soon after protests started in Wilmington related to the killing of George Floyd.  The officers, Michael ‘Kevin’ Piner, Jesse E. Moore II, and James ‘Brian’ Gilmore each had been with the Wilmington Police Department since the late 90’s.  The content of the conversations is horrifying and the story has become national news.  Keep reading for more on this and other news. Wilmington. As the Port City Daily reports, during a routine audit of footage from former officer Michael ‘Kevin’ Piner’s vehicle, a supervisor discovered a phone conversation Piner had in his vehicle with former officer Jessie Moore where Moore repeatedly used a racial slur to refer to a woman he had arrested the previous day.  Moore said that the woman he arrested “needed a bullet in her head right then,” a sentiment that Piner shared and claimed he had “been trying to tell” Moore for some time.  The two also discussed their dislike of a particular  black magistrate, insulting the magistrate and using racist and sexual language as Moore recounted that the magistrate had discussed using involuntary commitment rather than criminal charges to address the substance abuse issues of the woman Moore thought needed to be shot in the head. Their conversation then turned to Piner’s view that a race-based “civil war” [...]