The police chief of a northern Mississippi city where 1-year-old Black child Kohen Wiley was shot and killed by police responding to a shoplifting call was fired Tuesday amid a new controversy.

Leaders of a Mississippi city where police shot and killed one-year-old Kohen Wiley earlier this year unanimously voted to fire its police chief

Fired Chief Harold Vanderford routinely used racist language in text messages, including writing that he hoped his neighbors heard him shouting slurs at home