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thOE81M1WOA local Kentucky fire chief is in a whole new kind of trouble after video surfaces of him using the n-word at the scene of traffic accident. “We ain’t taking no n—–s here,” he says to a Bullitt County Sheriff’s deputy at the site of a car crash involving an African-American family and a white man, according to body-cam footage obtained by WDRB-TV. Southeast Bullitt Fire Chief Julius Hatfield’s department is already being audited by the state over allegations of financial mismanagement. The traffic accident occurred in September on Interstate 65. On the video, Hatfield is seen offering help to the white driver. “You got a jack, ain’t you?” Hatfield asked. “If you show me where them things is at, I’ll get my guys to start changing the tire for you,” he tells the driver, who gets loaded into an ambulance and taken to a local hospital. The other car contained an African-American couple from Ohio and their two children. Hatfield tells them to call AAA for help. Driver Chege Mwang told the station he was treated differently than the other motorist, but didn’t think anything of it at the time because he and his family were not hurt.