NEW YORK (1010 WINS) -- A Connecticut police chief is being investigated over accusations that his daughter wrote "disgusting" racist posts online.
An independent investigator will conduct a "comprehensive" probe after two-year-old Snapchat posts from the daughter of Naugatuck Police Chief Steven Hunt emerged on Friday including one that threatened to "shoot" black people.
"I'll make my dad drive with lights and sirens and if we see any black people we will shoot them," one post read, one screenshot shows.
Another post referenced Hunt's 2019 appointment to police chief, the New York Post reports.
"My dad is now officially police chief so that means he's more advanced in shooting black people then he was just a couple minutes ago," the post read alongside a photo of Hunt's daughter, who was approximately 13 or 14-years-old when the hateful messages were allegedly sent.
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Naugatuck Mayor N. Warren Hess confirmed to the Connecticut Post that Hunt's daughter does appear in photos alongside the hateful threats.
"The comments attributed to a member of Police Chief Steven Hunt's family are disgusting and totally inappropriate," said a joint statement by Hess, Police Commission Chairman Ralph Roper Jr. and Naugatuck Deputy Police Chief C. Colin McAllister.
Chief Hunt and his wife, Johnna on Saturday posted an open letter on the Naugatuckt Police Department's Facebook page "sincerely" apologizing to anyone offended or hurt by the hateful comments that circulated online Friday.
"The statements, which were sent privately to a juvenile acquaintance, were despicable in nature and inexcusable. There are many details as to how these messages became public two years later, but our purpose for releasing this statement is focused only on the conduct of our daughter and our response as a family moving forward," the statement read.
