ECHO, Oregon (AP) — An eastern Oregon city council has issued an apology after one of its members on Facebook used an anti-gay slur against a gay man and wrote he’d spit on the man’s grave when he died of AIDS.
The East Oregonian reports (http://bit.ly/2iqykHs) that Echo City Councilor Lou Nakapalau made the post but also voted Thursday with the rest of the councilors to issue the apology.
The apology includes a statement that comments on individual social media accounts don’t have the endorsement or approval of the city council as a whole and don’t represent city policy.
Nakapalau didn’t comment during the meeting.
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The newspaper reported the initial comments but said they had later been deleted and that another part had been edited to remove profanity.
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Information from: East Oregonian, http://www.eastoregonian.com