The newly elected Sheriff in Clayton County (GA) is shaking up the department.

On his first day on the job, the new sheriff called 27 employees into his office, stripped them of their badges, fired them, and had rooftop snipers stand guard as they were escorted out the door.

The fired employees included four of the highest-ranking officers, all of them white. [Sheriff Victor Hill] told the newspaper their replacements would be black.

Judge Stephen Boswell issued a temporary restraining order on the grounds that Hill's firings were without merit and violated civil service laws.