Colorado Sheriff: Veteran Of Dept. Retires After Calling Obama The N-Word

Robert Jaworski
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A veteran member of the El Paso County, Colorado Sheriff’s Department stepped down this month after admitting that he described President Barack Obama as a “nigger,” The Colorado Springs Gazette reported Monday.

Sheriff Bill Elder told the newspaper that Robert Jaworski, a lieutenant with the department, spontaneously used the slur to describe the President while watching him in a TV segment in a break room at the sheriff’s office. Several subordinates and members of the El Paso County Coroner’s Office were present, according to the report, which does not make clear when the incident happened.

Elder told the newspaper that he would have fired Jaworski, who rose to the rank of lieutenant and had a 28-year career with the department, had he not retired voluntarily on May 5.

“That is unacceptable in my administration,” Elder told the Gazette. “You wouldn’t get a warning as far as I’m concerned.”

Jaworski had spent the last 17 years investigating homicides and other serious crimes as a lieutenant, according to the report.

The county will not move forward with an investigation because Jaworski left before a disciplinary board could hold a hearing on his behavior, the Gazette reported. The sheriff told the newspaper that Jaworski would retain his retirement benefits, which he still would have received even if he had been fired.

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  1. We have found yet another Trump delegate.

  2. He should have ran for president.

    Because racist.

  3. When you “spontaneously” say something, it is ALWAYS what you REALLY THINK.

  4. There is thing where we let law enforcement and those in the military retire instead of taking what they would get in the real life which is a firing and never being able to hired again for their comments.

  5. The notion of this slovenly, poorly-shaved redneck calling Obama anything other than “sir” is comical.

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