Officer on fatal Charlottesville crash: ‘Hahahaha love this’

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Democratic Mayor Domenic Sarno denounced the comments.

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“There is no place for this in our society, let alone from a Springfield Police Officer,” Sarno said in a statement.

Lariviere had written on Facebook: “Hahahaha love this, maybe people shouldn’t block road ways.”

He was responding to a story about the death on Saturday of 32-year-old Heather Heyer, who was struck by a car that plowed into a crowd of people protesting the white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. Nineteen others were injured. James Alex Fields Jr., 20, of Ohio, was arrested shortly after and charged with second-degree murder.

Lariviere also questioned whether the driver of the car that struck the crowd was a “nazi scumbag.”

He responded to a critic who asked whether he had ever been struck by a car, saying he had been struck by someone “with warrants, but who cares right you ignorant brat live in a fantasy land with the rest of America while I deal with the real danger.”

Lariviere told Masslive.com he is not a racist.

“Never would I want someone to get murdered. I am not a racist and don’t believe in what any of those protesters are doing,” he said.

Lariviere was a member of the Springfield Police Academy’s 2014 graduating class. A message left by The Associated Press at a listed number for a Conrad Lariviere in Springfield was not immediately returned.

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