HISD fired officer who authored "Ghetto Handbook"

A Houston school district police officer who distributed a “Ghetto Handbook” has been fired.

Officer Roby Morris was placed on paid leave at the first of the school year after he handed out a multi-page pamphlet that listed “Ebonics” definitions to common phrases.

On Friday, the district moved to fire Morries.

According to HISD, Morris told investigators he created the handbook to get back at one of his supervisors.

He also used as his defense the fact he is married to a black woman and that they have three biracial kids, an internal investigation found.

About a dozen HISD employees, most from the district’s police department, received copies of the handbook back in May. The pamphlet claims to allow officers to speak as if they had lived “in the hood.”

“The publication was incredibly offensive and completely reprehensible. HISD condemns it in the strongest possible terms,” district spokesman Terry Abbott said. “This incident represents an egregious violation of our standards of conduct and decency.”