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Kauai Police Chief Todd Raybuck will serve a five day suspension after the police commission and Human Resources Department found he made racist remarks against Asian people, reports Hawaii News Now.
The commission also ordered him to undergo sensitivity training.
Last month in a video posted on YouTube, he apologized for the comments he made both last year and in 2019.
Civil Beat reports the controversy surfaced after an officer recorded the chief mocking Asian people by squinting his eyes and mocking someone with a Japanese accent.
In another incident, he described an Asian person as someone with a hairstyle out of a kung fu movie.
The city, however, cleared Raybuck of passing over an Asian American officer for a promotion due to his race.
Some called for Raybuck to resign, including former ABC News correspondent Ken Kashiwahara.
Raybuck’s “disparagement of Japanese Americans is shocking, incredulous and unacceptable. …It is yet another example of the wave of Trump-inspired, anti-Asian rhetoric and assaults sweeping the country,” he wrote in a letter to the Honolulu Star Advertiser.
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