Racist mayor abuses office

Tennessee officials are taking the rare step of trying to remove a small-town mayor accused of frequently using racial slurs, including the n-word, and targeting Hispanic drivers for tickets because they are "mostly illegal anyway."

District Attorney General John W. Carney filed the 17-page complaint this week after more than 500 of Coopertown's nearly 3,000 residents brought a petition to him.

The complaint accuses Mayor Danny Crosby of frequently using racial slurs since his election in 2004. In one instance, the complaint said Crosby swore in a new police officer on Martin Luther King Day and said, "Happy James Earl Ray Day," a reference to King's assassin.

Crosby, 52, who has denied the allegations and said he will fight the ouster effort, declined to comment to The Associated Press. He now has 20 days to file an answer to the complaint.

In an interview with The Tennessean, Crosby said the allegations were "full of garbage and lies."

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