[TangledUpInBlue]

Mind boggling. Perhaps even moreso...the guy's 82??? Police Commissioner?? They must have a lot of violent crime up there....

[Buckeye McFrog]

Really?

One Barney Fife cop in a town smaller than Mayberry spits out the “N” word and it’s national news?

[Piranha]

It is telling that the AP article has to say in the headline itself that the police commissioner is white. If he were black the word would have been shrugged off by the editor and not become a news story.

In any case, the fact that it did in fact become a news story that a local policeman used that word in a private conversations shows just how rare such an occurrence really is. If this were a dog bites man story, nobody would care.

[longfellow]

Obama gives n’s a bad name.

[miss marmelstein]

Well! I thought that word was only used in the benighted south! Color me shocked...not.

[redhawk.44mag]

He called the POTUS a...nuisance?

[RWB Patriot]

This might actually bother me if not for the fact that you don’t have to use such terms against dear leader to be considered racist.

[cloudmountain]

I hope the folks there pressure town resident Jane O'Toole to "get outta Dodge" and move BACK to wherever she came from.

SHE cast the "first stone," didn't she?

[TexasCajun]

... he meets and exceeds my criteria for such!

The old fart didn't get the message the political correct word is lawless THUG !!

[DeaconRed]

When I grew up my daddy used the N word but NOT for color.
The N word for for sorry ass individuals and yes some sorry ass white people fit that mold also.
If he were alive ZERO would fit the mold along with Slick & Jimmah..
He had no use for LBJ. LBJ was a choir boy compared to Jimmah, Slick and ZERO

[Wiser now]

The town has a new busybody, eavesdropping on every conversation she can, hunting for political incorrectness. Look at that woman’s face.
May we assume that since his party affiliation isn’t mentioned, he is a Democrat? Were he a Republican this story would be front page NYTimes, right?

[Theodore R.]

Oops, I suspect that this office will out that Red Hampshire has no longer any use for his services.

[onedoug]

The punk is an islamist. The so-called “n” word comes nowhere near that level of degradation.

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

"For this, I do not apologize — he meets and exceeds my criteria for such."

I won't argue with that.

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

Actually the “N” word is inappropriate. Obama is a “Crackigger” ..Half cracker half n...

[faucetman]

I am flabbergasted by the comments here in FR. I am so PROUD of you all!!! I was beginning to think I was the only one.

FPC. This guy is great! He’ll probably get fired, but he stood up for what he believed in, THE CONSTITUTION.

[certrtwngnut]

The complainant probably moved to N.H. from a large city such as NYC. People move to small towns to get away from the big city problems and bring their very liberal politics with them.
What should it matter to her what is said in a private conversation?

[Jim Noble]

They must have a lot of violent crime up there....

I live there. Two murders since 1962.

Lovely, quiet, peaceful little town.

[IronJack]

The “n-word ...”

Nitwit?
Numbskull?
Ne’er-do-well?
Ninny?
Nazi?
Nattering nabob?

[Cementjungle]

They must have a lot of violent crime up there....

I predict that this will change soon.

[DoodleDawg]

"I do not apologize — he meets and exceeds my criteria for such."

And other than being black that criteria is?