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Cumberland County FBI Investigation Requested: Allegations that Deputy sent racist message

BY John Kraft & Kirk Allen

ON July 14, 2020

Cumberland County, IL. (ECWd) -

Steve Carr, is a Cumberland County Deputy Sheriff who has in the past been suspended/placed on administrative leave for alleged things such as:

Death threats, threats of violence, and allegations of spouse abuse (here)

Suicide threats (here)

Now we have been informed that he has allegedly distributed a racist photograph (see it here) depicting a John Deere combine in a cotton field, with accompanying text reading "Thanks to John Deere blacks lives haven't mattered for quite some time."

We understand a citizen complaint has been filed with the Cumberland County Sheriff.

I contacted Deputy Carr via text to the number in the photograph:

I asked him if he sent the photo

He asked if there was any proof

I replied: "a screenshot with your phone number and time and date of the message and name of recipients."

He said: "somebody illegally hacked into my personal phone to receive the information. A picture with my number by it is irrelevant. I have came to realize that anyone can put anybody's name or number by anything even if it is not them and the news and public will run with it and do whatever they want with it. Slander, manipulation, and lies."

moar:

https://edgarcountywatchdogs.com/2020/07/cumberland-county-fbi-investigation-requested-allegations-that-deputy-sent-racist-message/