The Philadelphia police commissioner has suspended 17 officers for 30 days and is moving to fire 13 of them
over social media posts he called "sickening.".
Police Commissioner Richard Ross made the announcement during a news conference Thursday attended by Philadelphia Mayor James Kenney and the entire police department's command staff.
The disciplinary action stems from research published by the watchdog group the Plain View Project, which examined more than 3,100 allegedly troubling
Facebook posts made by 328 active Philadelphia police officers, 72 of whom were put on administrative duty.
Ross said an investigation by an outside law firm contracted by the city found that the officers being suspended allegedly made racist, transphobic and otherwise hateful posts.