"I'm extremely sorry for what I said. I didn't mean it. It's not a -- I didn't say it in a racial term. I said it in a socioeconomic term," he is quoted as saying in the report.
OCOEE, Fla. — According to the report, Wagner tried to clarify to the interviewer what he meant when he said the slur.
Chief Charles Brown released the following statement on Wagner's termination: