Police in Pearl, Mississippi say ‘welcome aboard’ to Jeremy Rast, who lost job last year from nearby Richland agency

A Mississippi police department has proudly announced its hiring of an officer who was fired from another agency last summer after video captured him telling a group of Latino men that he encountered on duty to “go back to Mexico”.

A social media post Thursday from the police department of Pearl asked community members to join the agency in “giving a warm welcome” to its newest member, Jeremy Rast, whose recorded comments while patrolling the streets of nearby Richland, Mississippi, in June cost him his job as an officer there.