should change its format from hip hop to country and western to bring a better crowd.” The comments made by Officer Morto and the unidentified police officers are offensive, but they are also stray and isolated. Random racial remarks by three officers do not signify that a force of approximately 75 to 78 officers is infected with racial animus. Cf. Harris v. Forklift Sys., Inc., 510 U.S. 17, 114 S.Ct. 367, 126 L.Ed.2d 295 (1993) (conduct merely offensive is not actionable under Title VII); Johnson v. Bunny Bread Co., 646 F.2d 1250, 1257 (8th Cir.1981) (no violation of Title VII from infrequent use of racial slurs). Furthermore, these remarks are utterly unconnected to any of the alleged incidents of harassment. Cf. Boyd v. State Farm Ins. Cos., 158 F.3d 326, 330 (5th Cir.1998) (<HOLDING>). Indeed, other than being quoted, neither
holding that without a link to the challenged decision stray remarks did not constitute indirect evidence of discrimination sufficient to satisfy the final prong of the mcdonnell douglas framework holding that repeated remarks about need to bring in new blood or young blood by one of the decisionmakers were not stray remarks and may permit inference of discrimination holding that absent a casual link between supervisors isolated racial remarks and employers decision to promote stray remarks cannot support a verdict for race discrimination holding that isolated remarks are insufficient to prove discriminatory intent holding causal link between alleged discriminatory remarks and adverse employment action insufficient