An Ohio police chief from a Cleveland suburb has retired after being caught on surveillance video placing a note saying 'Ku Klux Klan' and a raincoat displayed like a KKK robe and hood on a black officer's desk.
Anthony Campo, 61, stepped down shortly after Sheffield Lake Mayor Dennis Bring confronted him on Tuesday.
Bring learned what happened from the city law director after the police union representing the black officer filed a harassment complaint.
The video from the Sheffield Lake police station, which did not include sound, shows Campo last Friday standing at a printer, then carrying a small not with 'Ku Klux Klan' typed on it and putting it on the yellow police raincoat deliberately spread on the officer's desk.
A note saying 'Ku Klux Klan' is laying atop a raincoat arranged to resemble a KKK robe and hood on a black police officer's desk at the Sheffield Lake Police Department in Ohio
Sheffield Lake Police Chief Anthony Campo, 61, retired early after being caught on video placing the KKK note on the officer's desk
When the officer enters the room it sees the display, he looks in the direction of Campo's office. Video then shows the two talking briefly.
The officer removes the note from the coat, but then puts it back when two of his colleagues arrive. At least one of them appears to smile.
Mayor Bring said Campo, who is white, later told him it was supposed to be a prank. Bring called it 'embarrassing and disgusting.'
The mayor detailed his exchange with Campo to WKYC,
