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Fairview Park police asked auxiliary officer Aaron McNamara to resign Friday.

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Aaron McNamara, an auxiliary officer for the Fairview Park Police Department.

FAIRVIEW PARK, Ohio – An auxiliary police officer was asked to resign Friday after the Fairview Park Police Department determined he made racially charged comments and defended slavery in the comments sections of Youtube videos, police said.

An investigation into the officer's online activity began Thursday night when Cleveland Scene writer Doug Brown called the department and said police volunteer Aaron McNamara had been posting racists comments, a Fairview Park Police Department news release said.

Officers immediately asked Brown to provide any information about the Youtube accounts in question, the release said.

Brown said Friday that the volunteer officer's account and all comments made by it had been deleted.

But a series of screenshots posted on Cleveland Scene's website Thursday feature an 'Aaron McNamara' commenting on videos of police brutalizing black men.

He frequently uses racial slurs and calls the abolition of slavery the one of the worst things ever done.

McNamara was questioned about the comments Friday and then asked to resign, according to the release. The release said he is no longer working for the department but did not indicate if he had resigned or been fired.

McNamara posted the comments before he joined the police department, Fairview Park police Lt. Paul Shepard said.

In five months, he worked a total of 45 hours for Fairview Park police, Shepard said.

Auxiliary volunteers are non-sworn officers who assist the police but have no arrest authority, he said.

McNamara never expressed any prejudice while he worked for the Fairview Park Police Department, Shepard said.