England officer fired day after video posted showing him tell black men 'You don't belong in my city'

Screenshot of former England Police officer Michael Moore.
Screenshot of former England Police officer Michael Moore.

A central Arkansas police officer was fired a day after a video posted to social media showed him telling a group of black men they didn't belong in his city.

The England Police Department confirmed in a one-sentence news release that officer Michael Moore was fired Wednesday.

In the Facebook video posted by England native Demarcus Bunch, he and his cousin accused Moore of following them July 21 while they were in town filming a music video.

When they decided to introduce themselves, Moore can be seen in the video saying, "You don't belong in my city. I know who my people are. I have never seen you here before, and I know almost everybody here."

Bunch then mentions his former address and tells Moore that he graduated from England High School. The officer responds by saying he's from the "big city" and not from the small town of less than 3,000 people.

The men said they filed a formal complaint with the Police Department, and two weeks later, decided to post the video, which had more than 37,000 views and 1,000 shares as of Friday.

Moore was fired the next day.

"In a city in which we grew up, attended school and still have relatives, including our grandmother, we now all fear driving to or through England because of the one police officer presented in this video," Bunch said in the Facebook post.

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