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Ashley Gonzalez’s Racist Rant Shows Why Police and Marine Investigations Are Urgently Needed
Houston Police Officer, Ashley Gonzalez repeatedly said she hated Black people and referenced her Marine past
Trigger Warning: This article discusses racism, anti‑Black violence, and a police officer’s repeated use of a racial slur.
Ashley Gonzalez, a Latina Houston police officer and Marine, has been suspended with pay — but she needs to be fired after posting a racist rant on Instagram. Houston news outlets have covered the story, and Roland Martin Unfiltered aired the unedited version, where Gonzalez repeatedly says how much she hates Black people and laughs about a physical altercation. The video is sick, and deeply disturbing.
In a Houston news segment, Gonzalez is shown receiving her police credentials from a Black officer. The report then cuts to clips of her racist rant from inside a car. What many people are missing is that she also described allegedly assaulting a Black person. Gonzalez said, “Ya’ll don’t know how good it felt to say [the N-word], it felt like I was back in the Marine Corps”.
That alone raises serious questions about her military conduct and should prompt the Marine Corps to open an investigation into her past…
