A police oversight agency in Chicago has recommended firing an officer who made “an offensive racial remark” about Barack Obama during preparations for his visit to the city last year. While the oversight agency has not publicly disclosed what the remark was, the Washington Post, citing an official familiar with the investigation, reports that the officer referred to the president as a “nigger.”

Columbia may be both the largest city in South Carolina and its capital, but that doesn't mean the city's interim police chief has anything better to do than threaten to hunt down and arrest citizens who post complaints on his department's Facebook page.