Via TPM:

A Kentucky newspaper fired two staffers on Thursday for adding a sentence into Thursday’s edition that said local police officers get into the profession “because they have a desire to shoot minorities.”

“No reasonable excuse exists for the horrible mistake that occurred Thursday in The News-Enterprise,” editor Ben Sheroan wrote in an editorial for the Elizabethtown paper, which also ran a retraction of the original article.

“As a result, the two people involved were fired,” he wrote.

Reporting on a statement by Hardin County Sheriff John Ward, the article was supposed to paraphrase him saying that people join law enforcement “because they have a desire to serve the community.”

Ward told local station WLKY that he reached out to Sheroan after he saw the “minorities” line.