Cop Shooter revealed as a racist who hated Whites, sought to become a Black Lives Matter Hero

 The roommate of the man suspected of shooting two police officers before being shot and killed by other officers Wednesday night in East Boston is speaking out about the moments leading up to the firefight.


Diego, an necn employee who moved to Boston just four months ago, said he was sleeping in his room upstairs on Wednesday night when he heard his two roommates arguing.




The suspect, 33-year-old Kirk Figueroa, was a sworn constable and former Army reservist.
"The way he put it, he was trying to revolutionize the policing world," Diego said.





Additionally, Diego recalls, Figueroa seemed to be racist against white people.


"Race played a big part in Kirk's life. He would constantly talk down on 'white people,'" Diego said. "When he first moved in, he told me, 'Good thing you're Latino ... I would have a problem if you were a white guy.' He tells me, 'I refuse to have a white person sleeping over my head.'"



What ended in chaos, with three people lying shot on the floor of his apartment, at first didn't seem like a major incident to Diego.


"I woke up to them screaming and cursing," he told necn Investigates. "I didn't really think much of it."



Eventually, he said, the screaming died down and he assumed the argument had ended.



"Maybe 10 minutes later, I heard knocking on the front door. I opened my room door and police busted down the front door, guns drawn, saying, 'Hands up! Who are you? What are you doing here?'"