NEW SMYRNA BEACH, Fla. -- It's the newest attack on Barack Obama and it allegedly came from inside the New Smyrna Beach Police Department. The email, calling Obama racist, was left lying around the department and it made one officer very angry.

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An Internal Affairs investigation is underway because of Eyewitness News' questions.

One officer from New Smyrna Beach's all-white police force was apparently outraged when he saw a printed version of the email in the roll call room at headquarters. He wanted it to be exposed and that's how Eyewitness News ended up with it.

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The email appears to have been sent by New Smyrna Beach Police Commander William Drossman on city time on his city computer to two other officers. It claims to be a collection of so-called quotes from presidential candidate Barack Obama's books. They portray Obama, whose mother was white, as a man who dislikes whites.

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One quotes him as writing, "I found solace in nursing a pervasive sense of grievance and animosity against my mother's race." Information found on Snopes.com explains that this isn't actually a quote of Obama's and is actually taken from an article written about him and then turned into first-person. The other quotes in the email also appear to be twisted out of context.

"This is blatant racism," said community activist Chanel Mitchell. "I think he is a man with great wisdom and good for the future of America."

Eyewitness News showed it to police and asked to talk to Commander Drossman about it, but was denied.

"I talked to the chief and he said to forward this to OPS for administrative review," explained police spokesperson Sgt. Mike Brouilette.

The city's policy says someone can be fired for disseminating political material. City commissioner James Hathaway doesn't condone the email, but wouldn't go that far. .

"At this time it's too early for me to comment on [whether he should be fire]," he said.

But it's not too early for Mitchell to pass judgment.

"If it's true, he should be fired," he said.

The city manager told Eyewitness News he is also going to look into it and might have some sort of decision in the next couple of days about where it goes from here.