Winston-Salem Police Chief Catrina Thompson apologized this week after a Facebook post showed officers driving with a stuffed dreadlocked monkey in the back of their patrol car.

According to the Winston-Salem Journal, the person who took the video and posted it to Facebook called it "the most racist thing I have ever seen.”

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In the video that accompanied the post, it appears that the stuffed animal has dreadlocks and is wearing a Rastafarian hat.