Ohio Cop Fired After Body Cam Recorded Racial Slur Won’t Get Job Back

The Cincinnati police officer who was terminated after her body camera footage recorded her using the n-word lost her appeal to get her job back, the Cincinnati Enquirer reported.

Rose Valentino, who once starred in a reality show about women in law enforcement, was caught saying, “f---ing n-----s, I f---ing hate them” on her own body camera in footage taken on April 5, 2022. 

She was fired in August but filed a grievance asking for her reinstatement, which the labor arbitration board denied last week, the paper reported. Valentino had used the slurs while talking to herself stuck in traffic.

Arbitrators said that Valentino "was not terminated for use of a racial slur only” but rather for her "vituperative denunciation of an entire race,” according to the report. 

"She was discharged for using a slur while voicing hatred in a profanity-laden tirade against an entire community she had a duty and responsibility to protect," the report said.

Cincinnati's police union president Dan Hils told the Enquirer that Valentino wasn’t given a fair review because of the NAACP’s involvement in the arbitration.

"I should have known that the fix was in when the city introduced Joe Mallory, NAACP president, as their star witness in the arbitration case," Hils said. "When Mr. Mallory hinted to the arbitrators there would be trouble if Ms. Valentino was given her job back, I am certain they felt intimidated.”

Mallory told the paper he didn’t say any such thing, and called Valentino’s words “indefensible.”

"She would have been a walking liability. If she ever had contact with a Black person, her credibility would have been called into question,” he said.

Valentino appeared in the 2011 series “Police Women of Cincinnati,” a TLC reality show about women in law enforcement.