A Mississippi sheriff's deputy was fired from his job in Jackson County after a YouTube video allegedly captured him yelling racist slurs and violently threatening other players in an online video game. Friday's firing of deputy Michael Slater was confirmed by Jackson news outlet The Clarion-Ledger, who learned of the deputy's threats by way of a Free Thought Project report.

In the video, a Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare player who identified himself only as "David" received an angry private voice message from someone he'd encountered in a prior game ("you talk a lot of shit to suck as bad as you do, you're fuckin' terrible"), all while recording their play to make a "trolling" video for YouTube. David invited this angry player to a private voice chat session, at which point the conversation escalated quickly on both sides.

"In real life, you wouldn't wanna see me with a fuckin' gun," David was overheard saying to the person who eventually identified himself as a Jackson County sheriff's deputy. David was then heard shouting a stream of threats and asking for Slater's address, to which Slater actually obliged. (When asked for his own address, David responded, in true trolling fashion, "one-two-zero, four-five, D... eez nuts.")

"You're about to come to a fuckin' paid police officer's house," Slater was overheard saying in response to continued threats. "I get paid to beat up n*****s like you. I get paid to beat up fuckin' n*****s up like you. I will fuck you up. You're damn right I'm a cop." At that point, David could be heard asking for the badge number, which Slater offered. David continued making violent threats while saying "you ain't no fuckin' cop," at which point Slater offered to send a "picture message" of his face and his uniform.

“I don’t want him to lose his job”

Once the Free Thought Project received the relevant information, a reporter confirmed Michael Slater's employment with the Jackson County sheriff's department. Days later, the Jackson County sheriff's department confirmed the same information to the Clarion-Ledger, adding that Slater's job had been terminated and that he had been a member of the department for three years. "We don't condone that type of behavior or language," the department's spokesperson said.

The video was posted by Hood Gaming TV , a month-old game-streaming YouTube channel that contains a few videos about "roasting" and "fucking with" online players. The video about the sheriff's deputy opened with David insisting that "I did remove all of his information, badge number, phone number—everything—out of this video, so he could have his job. I don't want him to lose his job; he did all of this out of anger." David also insisted that he was "joking," that he told Slater that he was just joking, and that he is "not a person going around killing cops."

As police oversight and surveillance ramp up across the United States, it's perhaps tempting for a police department employee to assume that the trash-talking worlds of Xbox Live and PlayStation Network are safe havens for aggressive lunacy (badge number requests notwithstanding), but even those worlds have become subject to endless video capture as of late.