Police Commissioner Calls Obama The N-Word and Refuses to Apologize (VIDEO)

The Associated Press reports that: “A police commissioner in a predominantly white New Hampshire town says he won’t apologize for calling President Barack Obama the N-word, and he sat with his arms crossed while angry residents at a meeting called for his resignation on Thursday.”

Wolfeboro Police Commissioner Robert Copeland, who’s 82 and white, has acknowledged in an email to his fellow police commissioners he used the racial slur in describing Obama.

Town resident Jane O’Toole, who moved to Wolfeboro four months ago, said she overheard Copeland say the slur at a restaurant in March and wrote to the town manager about it. Copeland, in an email to her, acknowledged using the slur 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 the email to his fellow police commissioners, part of which he forwarded to O’Toole. “For this, I do not apologize — he meets and exceeds my criteria for such.”

WMUR reports that: “Phone lines have been ringing off the hook about Robert Copeland’s remarks at the Wolfeboro Police Department. People are threatening to boycott the town until he resigns.”

“I don’t want my agency to be painted with a broad brush of behavior or comments that are not appropriate,” said Wolfeboro Police Chief Stuart Chase.

The Town Manager, David Owen, told the Associated Press that while he finds Copeland’s comment “reprehensible,” he was powerless in the matter as Copeland is an elected official.

The Police Commission Chairman, Joseph Balboni Jr., said that he didn’t plan to ask Copeland to retire but said that he would hold a private meeting with other commissioners to “solve the matter.” Commissioner Ron Goodgame added “It’s neither my view or Commissioner Balboni’s view that the remarks are condoned.”

You can watch a report below, from WMUR.

New Hampshire police commissioner uses racial… por WMUR

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