A town police commissioner has resigned after he admitted using a racial slur to describe President Barack Obama, an official said Monday. Robert Copeland, 82, resigned Sunday night from the post to which he was re-elected in March, Board of Selectmen Chair Linda Murray said, putting to rest a controversy that drew national attention and sparked impassioned debate in this resort town of 6,300 on the shore of Lake Winnipesaukee.
Wolfeboro Police Commissioner Robert Copeland has acknowledged in an email to his fellow police commissioners he used the racial slur in describing Obama. “I believe I did use the ‘N’ word in reference to the current occupant of the Whitehouse,’’ Copeland said in an excerpt from an email he sent to his fellow police commissioners acknowledging his remark and then forwarded to O’Toole. ‘‘For this, I do not apologize — he meets and exceeds my criteria for such.”
