It’s never funny when a uniformed cop dresses up like a member of Ku Klux Klan.

But that’s just what Ohio Trooper Craig Franklin did one day before the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday.

The Sandusky Register reports that Franklin was photographed “‘in a handmade outfit, which resembles that worn by Ku Klux Klan’ members,” according to an anonymous letter someone sent to the Highway Patrol.

Franklin later told investigators that he made the outfit after a conversation about the holiday. He said he was inspired by comedian Dave Chappelle, who played a black member of the hate group during an episode of Chappelle’s Show.

White Americans have such a sophisticated sense of humor.




  1. MotaMan says:

    “he was inspired by comedian Dave Chappelle”

    it’s ok folks, he’s just a “Wigga”

  2. bobbo says:

    Cant we all just get along?

    Actually, I think it is possible to think one is being funny–just as he says. Just a year ago after watching Chappelle, I bantered with a check out clerk that “I am Rick James, Biotch.”

    Funny, or insensitive? Both, or neither? I’d give this guy a pass in a vacuum until more of his personal info became known==except he’s a cop. I think he has a higher duty to recognize his appropriate civilian role?

    But watch it. Humor by its nature can upset people.

  3. Magnus Patris says:

    Looks like his hood and robe shrunk in the dryer. Next time try the delicate cycle.

  4. eyeofthetiger says:

    Dave Chappelle lives in Ohio on a farm. The skit is where Chappelle plays a blind black guy who thinks he’s a white racists in the KKK. Has the OKP come so far that they think they are beyond prejudice of their fellow officers that such bland statements of state-sponsored terrorist KKK (which they were at that time) mongrels have became humors in their darky neighbors eyes?

  5. Improbus says:

    it’s ok folks, he’s just a “Wigga”

    May I make a list of more appropriate names (in order of increasing offensiveness)?

    Redneck
    Cracker
    White Trash

  6. Bill Gates says:

    Vaporware!

  7. the answer says:

    bye bye piggie

  8. GigG says:

    #5 for the idea that #1 was trying to get across Wigger was the correct term.

  9. Jägermeister says:

    Let him take his comedy act on tour throughout the prison system…

  10. Improbus says:

    @GigG

    Yeah, but wigger just sounds stupid.

  11. MotaMan says:

    Noun

    Singular
    wigger

    Plural
    wiggers

    wigger (plural wiggers)

    1. (informal) (derogatory) A Caucasian person (typically young and male) who dresses, speaks, or otherwise behaves in a manner that is stereotypically associated with certain aspects of African-American, Caribbean or hip-hop culture.

  12. admfubar says:

    #5 you forgot
    brittany spears.

  13. Jägermeister says:

    #11 – MotaMan

    A wigger

  14. ATaBOY says:

    midwest at it’s bitterest

  15. brucemlloyd says:

    What the hell is wrong with you people? Why do we have to belittle human beings? Why are we all so f-ing idiots?


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