zoom call ends. fire company begins racist talk not realizing other fire dept still listening [View all]

The original call was to discuss the consolidation of services between the Briarcliffe, Goodwill, and Darby Township fire companies.

When county and state officials got off the call, members of the Briarcliffe Fire Company allegedly stayed on and engaged in a discussion that included racial slurs and disparaging remarks about African Americans in the area.

"A bunch of f*cking n*ggers down there," one Briarcliffe firefighter can be heard saying in reference to the all-Black Darby Township Fire Company.
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The firefighters who made the alleged comments didn't know other firefighters were on the line from the Goodwill Fire Company. One of them was Deputy Chief Tim Eichelman.

"Those things they said were very discriminatory in nature, and that's not what we stand for," said Eichelman.

There were other disparaging comments about Black firefighters being lazy.

"They didn't do s___ there," one person said of Darby firefighters.

There was also a discussion of there being too many Black people in the area.

"That's the f---ing problem," one person said. "Blacks are taking over s---."

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That included sharing comments on the call that made fun of Fanta Bility. She is the 8-year-old girl killed by police gunfire.

"Fanta soda, yeah, orange or Fanta grape," one man said on the call while chuckling, even after being told that the girl was shot to death by police.

https://6abc.com/briarcliffe-fire-company-station-75-firefighters-racist-remarks-shutdown/11553165/

https://www.rawstory.com/racism-2656627844/