The assistant chief of the Estherwood Police Department in Louisiana has resigned after posting a racist meme to his Facebook.
Wayne Welsh shared a cartoon meme Sunday depicting a woman holding a young girl's head under water in a bathtub, with the caption, "When your daughters (sic) first crush is a little negro boy."
According to KADN, the post has been deleted, but not before users on social media shared screenshots of the post. Welsh immediately began to defend himself with responses.
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1of21A racist meme has led to the resignation of an assistant police chief in Estherwood, Louisiana.
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"Its (sic) not against the. Law if you share stuff on. Facebook. Its (sic). Social media. Internet."
But after online backlash and complaints to the Estherwood Police Department, Walsh posted an apology.
![Al Sharpton said this to an audience at Kean College in 1994. “White folks was in the caves while we was building empires … We built pyramids before Donald Trump ever knew what architecture was … we taught philosophy and astrology and mathematics before Socrates and them Greek homos ever got around to it." And during the Crown Heights Riot, Sharpton said this, "If the Jews want to get it on, tell them to pin their yarmulkes back and come over to my house".[62]](https://s.hdnux.com/photos/24/43/07/5386732/4/1200x0.jpg)
