(CNN) The recently retired chief of police of a New Jersey township was arrested Wednesday by the FBI and charged with a federal hate crime for allegedly slamming a handcuffed African-American suspect into a doorjamb during a 2016 arrest. According to a criminal complaint against Frank Nucera Jr., who resigned in January, the former chief espoused violence toward African-Americans, using the N-word and other epithets. He allegedly told an officer in his Bordentown police department that "The n-----s are like ISIS, they have no value." "They should line them all up and mow 'em down," he said, according to an affidavit accompanying the complaint.Affidavit alleges he likened African-Americans to ISIS, said they had no valueCNN's attempt to reach his lawyer was unsuccessful
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