NAACP wants Sandusky trooper fired over Klan-like costume
UPDATE: SANDUSKY — NAACP officials have met with the top-ranking officer of the Ohio State Highway Patrol to urge the firing of two troopers involved in a photo prank that included a Ku Klux Klan-like costume.
Ida Alexander is president of the Sandusky chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. She says the group met with Col. Richard Collins on Friday and she expects to hear back from him by Monday.
But Collins may have his hands tied.
The state public safety director also recommended that troopers Craig Franklin and Eric Wlodarsky be fired. But a provision in their union contract allows them to keep their jobs if they maintain a clean record for two years.
Franklin is pictured in the Jan. 20 cell phone photo wearing a white cone on his head and a white paper mask.
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