Snellville police recently declined to respond to a "disgusting" and "racially insensitive" anonymous call about a black couple and their white baby, the department said on Facebook Sunday.
The post on the official page has received dozens of comments and shares, with most of the readers either shocked at the call itself or congratulatory at how the SPD responded.
Capt. Greg Perry, the uniform division commander, appears to have posted the following: "Wanted to wait a little bit before posting this to calm down some. Our motto has always been, if you see something say something. However, there are some calls that we will not respond to.
"Kudos to one of our Day Watch Lieutenants for refusing to respond to a call asking us to check to see if a white baby belongs to a black couple. No other information given. This is disgusting.
"We are not someone's racially insensitive investigators. Proud of our Lieutenant not involving us in this call…..Thanks…Capt. Perry."
The department replied to one commiserating anecdote, shared by a reader in a comment: "We have an African American son. You won't believe the times we've been stopped asking us to prove he was ours."
To which the SPD replied, "that is just crazy."
So the SPD was skeptical when another user wrote, "Shameful! And if it had been a black baby with a white couple, I doubt that call would have ever been made."
The department replied, "not sure about that See Smay....someone else has already posted that the same stuff has happened to them but flip flop on the race...people just need to look beyond and live together as one."
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