Arkansas Police Officer Fired After Telling Black Men 'You Don't Belong in my City'

A police officer in Arkansas has been fired from his post after a confrontation with a group of black men was posted on social media.

Demarcus Bunch, 28, and a group of friends had traveled back to their home town of England, about 30 miles southeast of state capital Little Rock, to record a music video on July 21 when they came across Michael Moore from the England Police Department.

Moore had apparently been following the group as they drove through the town. Bunch then stopped the car he was in and went to introduce himself and his friends in an interaction that he films.

"The reason I walked up (to him) recording is I could kind of feel—I had a gut feeling—that there was going to be a bad vibe from the way he followed us everywhere we went," Bunch told CNN.

Moore shook the young men's hands and tells them his name.

Bunch and his cousin tell Moore their uncle is a local police officer too and that they are shooting a video in his home town.

But in the video, Moore tells them "you don't belong in my city."

When one of the men replied "But we from here," Moore said, "But you understand... I know who my people are, right? Who belongs here and who doesn't?"

Moore then goes on to say: "We've got gang wars going on. We got all kinds of stuff. And I come from the big city where this stuff is small, okay? So, that's cool. Do your thing."

Bunch then asks: "You said we don't belong in your city, though?" to which Moore replies: "Can I say something? OK ... I have never seen you here before, and I know almost everybody here."

Bunch said: "When he said like... 'you don't belong in my city. You're not from here.' Like, c'mon man. England is 3,000 people. Everybody knows everybody."

Bunch later told the CNN affiliate KATV: "If he is not terminated then the world will know something is wrong, there is no reason that he shouldn't be terminated."

"If you look at the news every other day it's racial profiling, stereotyping and senseless killings for young black men. And had I not been recording and he didn't have his camera, who's to say what would have happened," he added.

Six hours after the video aired, the police chief announced that Moore had been fired.

It's not the first time Moore—who started his law enforcement career in Greenville, South Carolina before working for the Simpsonville, South Carolina police department for 10 months and moving to Arkansas—has been fired.

He was fired by the Lonoke County Sheriff's Department, who cited his "bad attitude."