Troopers Fired For KKK Stunt

Two Ohio State Troopers were fired for what, apparently, they thought was a silly prank. Given that law enforcement personnel are tasked with protecting and serving all of the people, inappropriate seems like too mild a word for this.

It was just a joke, they said, a prank modeled on a black comedian's skit the day before a black civil rights icon's holiday.

The two Ohio highway patrolmen involved in photographing of one of them in a handmade Ku Klux Klan costume while on duty the day before the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday have been fired.
(AP Photo via Sandusky Register)But the two officers from the Ohio State Highway Patrol involved in a camera-phone photo shoot in which one posed with a crude KKK-costume over his uniform while the other snapped away are out of work after a governor-ordered investigation.