CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) -- A vehicle-graphics company that does work for a number of Chicago area police and fire departments is being dropped by a west suburban police department over the owner’s social media posts.
The Batavia Police Department has cut ties with Jake Zaagman, otherwise known as Jack The Striper, over Facebook posts the department said were racist, homophobic, anti-Semitic, and otherwise appalling in nature.
"This afternoon the Batavia Police Department was alerted to a series of messages that were posted to the internet by of one of the department’s third-party vendors. This vendor has supplied our police car markings for a number of years. These social media posts can only be described as racist, homophobic, anti-Semitic and otherwise appalling in nature," stated a post on Batavia Police Department's Facebook page.
"The Batavia Police Department wants it to be clear that these messages do not even remotely align with our value of diversity and inclusion in our community, nor with the Police Department’s organizational philosophies or our approach to ethical and impartial policing.
"As a result of these messages, the Batavia Police Department is severing our business relationship with this vendor, effective immediately," the post on Batavia Police Department's Facebook page continued.
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Many of Jake Zaagman's posts are still viewable, but some are not. Among viewable posts that can be mentioned, Zaagman calls the Rashard Brooks killing a "good shooting, justified," and on a story about Confederate monuments said "defend our history."
His website includes pictures of departments he has done work for, including the Chicago, Hanover Park, and North Riverside police departments, and the McHenry and Cook County sheriff's departments.