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An auxiliary officer with the Fairview Park Police Department, who had written that black people should be “exterminated,” resigned last week.

The Cleveland Scene first reported that Aaron McNamara had a position as a volunteer officer as he finished his college degree and prepared for a full-time job on the force. But those plans were derailed when comments he had made on the Internet over the last two years came to light.

According to the Scene, McNamara like to hang out in the YouTube comment area, where he was caught “regularly dropping racial and gay slurs, unambiguously expressing hatred towards minorities and anyone who dare not comply with what police say.”

For example, “jungle monkeys” and “spooks” were some of the milder slurs the officer used for African-Americans. Read more via

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