Officer suspended for Gates slur in e-mail

Justin Barrett

The mayor stressed that the incident was about one officer, and ''one officer doesn't make up a police department."

Menino, speaking to the Globe before an evening event in the South End, said he hadn't seen the e-mail Menino said while the officer is not officially terminated, he might as well be "He's gone, g-o-n-e. I don't care, it's like cancer, you don't keep those cancers around."

Boston police, black leaders decry racist slurs by officer