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BOSTON — A Boston police officer has been suspended for using a racial slur to describe black Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr.
After learning of the slur, Police Commissioner Edward Davis put 36-year-old Justin Barrett on administrative leave pending a termination hearing.
A person with knowledge of the case, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Barrett, a member of the National Guard, used the racial slur in e-mail messages to guardsmen and to The Boston Globe.
The Associated Press
