A fire chief in upstate New York was removed from his position after it was revealed he called Rep. Maxine Waters Maxine Moore WatersPowell, Mnuchin stress limits of current emergency lending programs Pelosi: House will stay in session until agreement is reached on coronavirus relief Omar invokes father's death from coronavirus in reaction to Woodward book MORE (D-Calif.) a racial slur.

James Brewster, the former fire chief for East Syracuse, was demoted to village firefighter after an investigation led by the town’s mayor, Robert Tackman, revealed that he called Waters the n-word in a since-deleted comment on Facebook, WSTM reported Wednesday.

In a screen shot of the Facebook comment, Brewster wrote: “Maxine gives the word [n-word] a bad name.”

Mayor of East Syracuse investigating racist comment in Facebook post that appears to have come from an account belonging to an E. Syracuse Fire Chief. Post references Rep. Maxine Waters. pic.twitter.com/P4kIXBMPGf — Michael Benny (@MichaelBenny) June 29, 2018

According to the news outlet, Brewster was first suspended without pay from his position last month after his comment surfaced.

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Prior to the village board’s decision to demote Brewster, the firefighter underwent a civil service hearing.





Tackman said the firefighter has since apologized to the village board for the racially offensive comment.

“He has expressed remorse for posting that, and he has said he’s sorry to me,” Tackman told the local station.

Waters, one of a few House Democrats to openly call for President Trump Donald John TrumpSteele Dossier sub-source was subject of FBI counterintelligence probe Pelosi slams Trump executive order on pre-existing conditions: It 'isn't worth the paper it's signed on' Trump 'no longer angry' at Romney because of Supreme Court stance MORE’s impeachment, became a target for threats and verbal attacks after she called for protesters to publicly confront Trump administration officials earlier this year.

In late June, the California Democrat said she even had to cancel multiple events after claiming she received a “very serious death threat” on the heels of a tweet shared by Trump, in which he inaccurately claimed that the congresswoman called for harm to his supporters.

Waters later said that she did not call for Trump’s supporters to be harmed and that she believes in “peaceful protest.”