An Alabama town has disbanded its police department after texts between officers joking about slavery surfaced on social media.\"This has torn this community apart,\" City Councilman Corey Abrams said during a council meeting Thursday, according to the Associated Press. \"It doesn’t matter what color we are as long as we do right by people.\"Abrams\' comments comeas Vincent, Alabama Mayor James Latimore confirmed that Vincent Police Chief James Srygley and Assistant Chief John L. Goss were fired after text messages allegedly sent between the city\'s police officers featured a joke about a pregnant slave.ESCAPE OF KIDNAPPING VICTIM, 12, PROMPTED DISCOVERY OF TWO DECOMPOSING BODIES AT ALABAMA MOBILE HOME \"What do y’all call a pregnant slave?\" asked a text message by someone identified only as \"752.\"An unidentified respondent texts back \"?\" in one message and \"?? in a second, before \"752\" responds with \"BOGO Buy one, get one free.\"The texts later surfaced on social media, with Latimore
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