ShootSpeeders
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I hope this cop has the sense to point out that blacks use this word all the time and it's racist to say whites aren't allowed to.
http://news.yahoo.com/town-upset-police-official-used-n-word-obama-201744824.html
May 15, 2014
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) Some residents of a predominantly white New Hampshire town are upset with racist remarks a police commissioner made about President Barack Obama.
Resident Jane O'Toole said she overheard Wolfeboro Police Commissioner Robert Copeland use a racial slur in describing Obama. And in an email to her, Copeland, who is white, acknowledged using the N-word in referring to the president and said he will not apologize.
"I believe I did use the 'N' word in reference to the current occupant of the Whitehouse," Copeland said in an excerpt from an email he sent to his fellow police commissioners acknowledging his remark and then forwarded to O'Toole. "For this, I do not apologize he meets and exceeds my criteria for such."
Copeland is one of three members of the police commission, which hires, fires and disciplines officers and sets their salaries. Copeland, 82, ran unopposed for re-election to the commission and secured another three-year term on March 11.
Wolfeboro Town Manager David Owen said Thursday that while he finds Copeland's comment "reprehensible," he and the board of selectmen have no authority to remove an elected official. Owen said he expects a large number of residents will call for Copeland's resignation at a police commission meeting, adding "more power to them."