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Kinkaid resigns as Health Department director, racial slur alleged

William Kincaid (KWMU file photo)
William Kincaid (KWMU file photo)

By AP/KWMU

St. Louis, MO – The head of the St. Louis City Health Department resigned Thursday amid allegations he made a racial slur at a meeting. Mayor Francis Slay's office won't say why William Kincaid resigned.

But Alderman Gregory Carter told the Post-Dispatch that he had heard several complaints that a derogatory remark was made.

The chief of the department's Communicable Disease office, Pamela Rice-Walker, was named interim director until a permanent replacement can be found.

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