Update: Retired LAPD Detective Caught On Camera Using The N-Word After Reported Traffic Accident (Video)

March 16, 2021 10:30 PM update: L.A. TACO spoke to the person that recorded the now viral video of former LAPD Detective John Motto engaging in a racist tirade. We've also included statements from both the LAPD and LASD.

[dropcap size=big]A[/dropcap]n alarming video of a retired Los Angeles police detective using racist language after a traffic accident in Santa Clarita, CA is circulating on social media. 

A Twitter video posted by @WhatUpSCV, opens with former LAPD Central Bureau Homicide Detective John Motto saying to a young Black man, “Oh but you can say nigger and I can’t?” A woman pulls Motto back before ordering the Black man to go back to their car. “Are you fucking serious right now?” The young Black man says before he begins pacing. Moments later, Motto tells him, “Go back into your little cage until the monkey controller gets here.”

Later Motto approaches the man again and says, “Are you going to take your ID out, yes or no? Are you going to take your identification out?” When the man asks a group of bystanders if they heard Motto call him the n-word. Motto interjects, “No, he started the nigger thing because he is the dumb nigger.”