SURF CITY, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina town has approved the retirement of the police chief after he referred to the Black Lives Matter movement as a terrorist group in a Facebook post.

Local news outlets report that the town council in Surf City approved the retirement of Police Chief Mike Halstead during an emergency meeting Tuesday.

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Halstead is white and had planned to retire this year. The town approved the retirement following a Sept. 3 Facebook post by Halstead.

In the 662-word post, he called Black Lives Matter "nothing more than an American born terrorist group." Halstead said neither the government nor blacks would tolerate a white supremacist group marching through the streets calling for the murders of public servants.

Halstead removed the post, which was on his personal account, this week. 
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