By John Bowden @ TheHill.com, Aug. 31

A police officer in Columbia, S.C., was suspended without pay on Sunday after video emerged of him using a racist slur multiple times outside of a crowded bar. The City of Columbia Police Department said in a statement that Sgt. Chad Walker would remain suspended pending the outcome of a disciplinary proceeding.

In a video that quickly went viral, Walker could be seen and heard Saturday outside of Bar None in the city's Five Points neighborhood using the N-word multiple times after a Black man who is not seen on video yelled the word at the officer who was leaving the bar. Walker, who is white, appears to be arguing with patrons in the video, asserting that he can say the N-word because a Black patron had just referred to him by the term. "People of color? The gentleman right there that called me a n-----?" Walker says in the video, addressing a separate bar patron or employee [....]