29 Police Officers Suspended Over Right-Wing Chat Group Participation

ESSEN, GERMANY - SEPTEMBER 17: Police cars are seen in front of a police station on September 17, 2020 in Muelheim, Germany. A total of 29 police officers working in the Essen jurisdiction, many of them in nearby Muelheim, have been suspended after they were found to be participating in far-right online chat groups. Memes the officers shared included ones showing the Nazi swastika, a refugee in a gas chamber and the shooting of a Black man. The suspensions come on top of a string of right-wing cases among police in Germany, including a small group that had sent threatening emails to human rights activists and left-wing politicians and signed them with "Heil Hitler" and NSU 2.0, the latter a reference to a former far-right domestic terror group. (Photo by Lukas Schulze/Getty Images)