VILLA RICA, Ga. — A police department in Georgia is apologizing after posting now-deleted footage showed several white participants in a handgun training course shooting a photo of a Black man for target practice. The footage has sparked outrage among some in the community.
A representative from the police department told ABC News that the human images will no longer be used for civilian target practice following the outrage but the images will continue to be used for law enforcement training per law enforcement training standards.
Members of the Carroll County branch of the NAACP criticized the department's use of photos as targets. Villa Rica Mayor Gil McDougal ordered the images to be removed from social media and for an independent firm to investigate the incident, according to WSB-TV. Diversity training would give more insight"as to the reasoning as to why those targets are 'unacceptable and deemed racist,'" Conteh said in the statement.
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