FLORIDA: Effervescent Jacksonville Sheriff's Police Officer Lt. Trudy Callahan was suspended for 10 days - claims her (ALLEGED) racist Instagram post of a 'chillaxing' black man using broken chain link fence as a 'hood hammock' was just 'taken out of context'

A Florida sheriff's lieutenant who was suspended over online posts that were deemed racist has told Internal Affairs investigators they were taken out of context.

The Florida Times-Union reports Jacksonville Sheriff's Lt. Trudy Callahan was suspended for 10 days.

She is appealing the decision, and says her posts were 'twisted and turned to fit people's agendas'.

The investigation began in January after complaints that postings on her then-publicly accessible Instagram account were insulting and potentially racist.

One of the posts included an image of a black man lying in a broken chain-link fence, which was declared a 'hood hammock' that was a good spot to 'chilax'.

A second posting showed a sketch of a black man with dreadlocks. The post insinuated this is what all black men look like.

A third picture depicted black man standing in a drive thru line at an ATM.

The account belonging to Callahan posted the comment, 'When you need money to get gas for the car you can't drive up to the ATM.'

In another post describing condoms on sale, the caption beneath a picture taken at a drugstore reads: 'I mean are condoms not selling enough in the hood they gotta put them on sale?'

The Sheriff's Office did not find that she was racially biased in her treatment of others in her job, but by posting the comments online on Instagram she violated code of conduct rules, according to the 21-page Internal Affairs report.

Sheriff Mike Williams said be has seen some but not all the posts. 'That is completely inappropriate and completely unprofessional,' he said of the Instagram content.

'That's not indicative of what lieutenants in our agency are like and it's unprofessional.'

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