N.H. police commissioner resigns after calling Obama the N-word

[warrior1]

http://www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-new-hampshire-police-20140519-story.html

A New Hampshire police commissioner has resigned after calling President Obama the N-word and then refusing (at least initially) to apologize for it.

Police Commissioner Robert Copeland resigned in an email to the commission's chairman on Sunday evening, the Wolfeboro Police Department said in a statement provided to the Los Angeles Times.


Copeland, who is white, was one of three elected police commissioners in the town of 6,083. He had just been elected to a three-year term in March, leaving local residents with few options for getting rid of him after his remarks drew condemnation from around the country.

A resident who said she had heard Copeland, 82, use the word in March complained to city officials, which reportedly led to Copeland confirming those remarks in a controversial email that has now been widely circulated in the media.

[TreasonousBastard]

1. No surprise there.

[Thinkingabout]

2. Agreed.

[SevenSixtyTwo]

3. I wonder

what President Obama's feelings are about it.

[Skittles]

6. he thinks they are sad and pathetic

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[SevenSixtyTwo]

7. I can't find any reference to

President Obama's reaction. I have serious doubts that he uses that word himself as I believe he has much more class than that. I'm just curious if he himself thinks some ignorant police chief should lose his career over a commonly used word or take a class on proper workplace etiquette. I lose no sleep either way. Just curious.

[Skittles]

8. here ya go

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/03/obama-cliven-bundy_n_5261270.html

I know this was said as a joke but President Obama is absolutely correct - there's really not much point in listening to a guy like Bundy

[SevenSixtyTwo]

11. Thanks for the link.

He handled it as I would have expected. With class and humor. He didn't lower himself to Bundy's level.

[RiffRandell]

4. Racist piece of shit.

Compliments again to the residents who spoke out against him. Unfortunately, there are probably several other commissioners across this country just like him.

[Skittles]

5. I really hope these kind of relics are dying off

I mean, seriously, WTF

[Donald Ian Rankin]

9. "The practice of hinting by single letters those expletives with which profane and violent persons

are want to garnish their discourse, strikes me as a proceeding which, however well meant, is weak and futile" - Charlotte Bronte.

[lpbk2713]

10. Accountability can be a real PITA can't it Bob.

Probably thought that being a Police Commissioner put him above all scrutiny.


Surprise, surprise.

Smug, arrogant asshole.

[napkinz]

12. what say you, Mr. Roberts?

[Sheepshank]

13. So Obama gets called a N***** from some on the Right

and piece of shit used care salesman from some on the Left.

Tough being POTUS.