Kaplan Police Officer Steven Aucoin was fired following an investigation for allegedly suggesting that it was “unfortunate” that the coronavirus pandemic had not killed off black people, officials said.

The Kaplan Police Department has released a written statement on its Facebook page:

“We are writing this to inform everyone that we were made aware of the situation with the comments on Facebook from Steven Aucoin.

In comments posted during a live stream of Gov. John Bel Edwards’ press conference on state’s COVID-19 response, the Louisiana cop stated that it was “unfortunate” that all black people weren’t killed by the virus.

Kaplan Police Chief Joshua Hardy tells KFLY that this kind of behavior from a police officer is not tolerated within the department and he fired Aucoin after they completed an investigation of the entire thread.

“There were some comments that were further up that was not suitable for a police officer to put up on Facebook,” Chief Hardy said.