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Police Suspended Over Disco Fire Messages
AUSTIN, Texas — Five police officers and four dispatchers were suspended for sending computer messages after a nightclub caught fire joking about the blaze and quoting a line from the song "Disco Inferno" — "burn baby burn."
Witnesses at the Midtown Live club saw the "burn baby burn" message on the computer screen inside an officer's patrol car during the Feb. 18 fire. Police Chief Stan Knee said a commander and corporal who responded to the scene worked to calm angry witnesses.
The club has a mostly black clientele, and there were suggestions after the fire that the messages revealed racial bias in the department.
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