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RALEIGH, N.C. -
A North Carolina Highway Patrol officer demoted for using a racial slur is getting his job back.
WRAL-TV reports that an administrative judge made the ruling Friday concerning First Sgt. Mitch Foard.
The Highway Patrol took action after they said Foard used the slur in a message left on a former trooper's cell phone last year.
Former Lt. Virgil Lessane said he received a voice mail of a recorded conversation between two people who referred to him, and one person used a racial slur. Lessane said he believes Foard and another trooper, Capt. Phillip Jones, were the speakers.
Lessane is black and the other two officers are white.
Jones retired after the investigation.
Foard will be reinstated with full pay and benefits retroactive to 2006.
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