The Oakland Police Department in California said it has parted ways with a probationary city employee after learning of “a series of racist, bigoted and derogatory statements” the woman allegedly made on social media nearly 12 years ago, the department announced in a statement.
Jocelyn Chang Newman, who was welcomed last February to the department as one of 18 newly graduated officers from the basic recruit academy, is “no longer employed by the city” after a local news outlet, Univision 14, brought the allegations to the attention of Oakland Police, the department said .
The department said it is internally investigating the incident, which involves comments allegedly made by Chang Newman on Facebook about Black people and Guatemalans using slurs and expletives, Univision 14 reported.
The posts thought to have been created by Chang Newman, 30, between 2012 and 2013 were screenshotted by the news outlet and shared with the department on Feb. 2, resulting in her firing hours later, according to Univision 14.