Duane Lee “Dog” Chapman, an American bounty hunter and bail bondsman who lives in Honolulu, Hawaii is in a big time mess for using racial comments in a recorded tape, while he was speaking to his son Tucker and urging him to break up with his black girlfriend, Monique Shinnery.
Chapman, who stars in Dog the Bounty Hunter, a weekly reality television program which is broadcast on the A&E Network and Bravo and Virgin 1 in the UK, and was heard calling his son’s girlfriend a ‘nigger’ in the tape.
The tape was obtained by the National Enquirer and published on its Web site on Wednesday. On the tape, an enraged Chapman uses profanities and a racial slur while talking about his son’s girlfriend, who is African American. The Enquirer did not say how it obtained the tape and though it was not clear whom Chapman was talking to, reports maintain that he was talking to his son.
After serving 18 months in prison for murder charges in 1977, he was released and became a bail bondsman and bounty hunter. This began when Chapman was in court disputing child support.
When he told the judge he did not have the money to pay, the judge offered him a deal to bring in fugitive in exchange for the judge to pay part of Chapman’s child support. He started his first bondsman business in his hometown of Denver, Colorado before moving to Hawaii with his wife, Beth, and their children.
Chapman’s business and family life are now the subject of his own TV show, titled Dog the Bounty Hunter, on the network A&E.
Production of the reality show has been suspended after the Chapman was accused for racial comments. The A&E television network said it stopped production while it investigates the comments by Chapman, who runs Da Kine Bail Bonds in downtown Honolulu and whose appeal as a folk hero has been heightened by the three-year-old show.
Tim Storey, an African-American, who is Chapman’s pastor told us that he spoke with Dog, who cried for 30 minutes, saying, “I’m shocked, I’m wrong I repent. Can you believe, Tim, that I’m going to be put in the same category as Imus.”
The pastor said he talked to Dog three times today and he apologized, saying he wasn’t angry with the girl, it was anger toward his son.
Via: Blemish
