McLennan County Sheriff Parnell McNamara said Monday a Facebook post by a local man that appears to show a deputy engaging in racial slurs during a weekend traffic stop is not a real version of events.

McNamara called KWTX reporters to his office Monday, provided a copy of a 59-minute video recording of the incident and issued a statement about the suspect and what he eventually posted on Facebook.

A deputy stopped a vehicle very early Friday morning near Interstate 35 South and New Road, right in front of the Harley Davidson of Waco showroom.

The deputy stopped the car because the rear license plate was obscured, unreadable, which is a legitimate traffic violation.

The driver pulled into the Harley Davidson parking lot and stopped, and on the video the deputy can be seen approaching the driver’s window and can be heard talking with the driver and his passenger.

The deputy asked a Lorena police officer to assist because he knew the Lorena officer had a drug dog and he wanted to check the car.

The Lorena officer arrived in short time and also established a video and audio recording of the incident.

Apparently unknown to the deputy the driver, Wesley Dewayne Stalley, 22, of Hewitt, also was recording the exchange on his cellphone.

The dog reacted, but no drugs were found.

A check on the passenger, however, showed a criminal case history.

Over the weekend Stalley posted a video on Facebook that shows the traffic stop and includes an exchange of foul, racist language and a threat to plant evidence.

Stalley says he found the exchange after he reviewed his cellphone video following the traffic stop.

Stalley says he and his friend, Don Cooper, were handcuffed and put in the back of the deputy’s patrol car while the officer searched theirs for drugs.

Stalley says the deputy made several racial remarks while searching the car trunk.

Cooper, in an interview with KWTX, said "That's degrading minorities not even just blacks just everybody."

In the video posted on Facebook there is audio of someone talking about the search of the car who uses the “N” word and other racial slurs and says if he doesn’t find any drugs in the car, he’ll plant some there.

But McNamara says a review of video from the officers' cameras shows that never happened.

“That’s absolutely not true,” McNamara said.

McNamara says Stalley secretly shot a cellphone video of his encounter with the deputy and then augmented the video by adding audio that was not part of the original recording, that Stalley claims was the deputy making inappropriate remarks.

In the 59-minute video of the event that was recorded on the patrol car dash camera, during the search of the car trunk, the deputy says nothing.

McNamara and Chief Deputy David Kilcrease supported that claim Monday when they provided copies of the deputy’s dashboard camera recording of the event, which lasted 59 minutes, and began before the stopped happened, then ended after the suspect left the scene.

The sheriff’s office tape directly conflicts with the video Stalley posted that he claims is a recording of the event, although he admitted to KWTX the video had been edited.

A video recording provided by Lorena police from the dashboard camera of the K-9 unit that responded shows no evidence of an impropriety between Stalley and the deputy, Lorena police Chief Tom Dickson said.

Dickson also provided a copy of his officer’s dash cam video to KWTX for review.

McNamara said Stalley had an exchange with Waco police on a similar issue, but Waco police said Monday while they’d had an encounter with Stalley on another issue at another time, he was neither the subject of any investigation nor had he made any racial claims against the Waco department.

A check with three other police departments that surround Waco showed Stalley had not been the subject of any issues with those agencies, either.

“This is a very blatant and fraudulent attempt to cast a very bad light on law enforcement, and it places law enforcement at greater risk of violence toward our officers,” McNamara said.

McNamara said posting the deliberately altered video on Facebook is “designed to inflame and create distrust.

“Any individual who seeks to inflame racial distrust and tension, who fabricates and lies about the incident, injures each and every person who is exposed to their lie,” McNamara said.

“I’ve been involved in law enforcement around here for a long time and I never felt like there was any real racial tension between different minorities and law enforcement,” McNamara said.

“There have been minor incidents but nothing major because there is a level of trust there between law enforcement and the African-American, Hispanic and Asian communities and this accusation is way outside the normal for around here,” McNamara said.

The McLennan County Sheriff’s office and even the Waco Police Department, which had no involvement in the incident, both reported they received several calls Monday commenting on the Facebook post.

Stalley and Cooper say they don’t hold any grudges.