[VIDEO] Kentucky Fire Chief Refuses To Help Black Family In Accident, “We Ain’t Takin’ No Ni**ers Here”

Southeast Bullitt County Fire Chief Julius Hatfield speaks to WDRB (screen grab)

A Kentucky fire chief is being criticized for racist comments after he refused to help a family of stranded motorists because they were black, and then suggested that an Asian-American television reporter did not understand English.

A Bullitt County Sheriff deputy’s body camera (video below) recorded Southeast Bullitt Fire Chief Julius Hatfield making the N-word remark back in September, reports WDRB.

Southeast Bullitt County Fire Chief Julius Hatfield speaks to WDRB (screen grab)
Southeast Bullitt County Fire Chief Julius Hatfield speaks to WDRB (screen grab)

Hatfield first goes out of his way to provide assistance to Loren Dicken, who is white.

“You got a jack, ain’t you?” Hatfield asks the driver. “If you show me where them things is at, I’ll get my guys to start changing the tire for you.”



At first, Dicken turns down the offer, but Hatfield insists, saying, “It will save you a bill.”

Firefighters working for Hatfield even picked Dicken up from the hospital and took him back to the firehouse, where his car was ready and waiting.

But Hatfield treats the family of four black motorists entirely different.

“Well, I’ve got a family of four from Cincinnati, I got to do something with,” the Bullitt County deputy tells Hatfield over the radio.

“We ain’t taking no niggers here,” Hatfield replies, laughing.

Instead of offering to help driver Chege Mwangi, the deputy recommends that he call the AAA motor club.

Mwangi told WDRB that he noticed that the firefighters had provided assistance to other motorists, but his family wasn’t injured so he didn’t think much of it. However, he said that the sheriff’s department was helpful.

And when WDRB’s Valerie Chinn attempted to ask Hatfield about the financial management of Southeast Bullitt Fire Department at a town meeting, he suggested that she didn’t understand English, and threatened to have her arrested.

“Do you understand English darling?” he says in video recorded at the public meeting by WDRB cameras. “Do you understand English?”

Sources: RAW Story, Opposing Views



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