An official of the Genesee County Land Bank an agency that manages foreclosed homes in Flint, Michigan, was caught on audio saying that Flint’s water crisis was caused by “n****rs who don’t pay their bills.”.

The sales manager has now resigned due to the surfaced recordings.

Local environmental activist Chelsea Lyons recorded Phil Stair in May without his knowledge after meeting him at a bar.

The crisis happened as a result of the city switching from buying Detroit’s pre-treated Lake Huron water to using water from Flint River in 2014. The water plant failed to properly treat the river water, a monumental fail of local government and corruption.

But Stair had a different opinion and was recorded saying:

Detroit was charging all its customers for the cost; they weren’t collecting from their residents. They weren’t shutting the water off, they were letting bills go forever, but they were charging everybody else, they covered them. Well, Flint has the same problems as Detroit, fucking niggers don’t pay their bills, believe me, I deal with them. I don’t want to call them niggers, shit, I have, shit, I just went to Myrtle Beach, 24 guys, and I was the only white guy. I got friends, I mean, there’s trash and there’s people that do this. … They just don’t pay their bills. Well, Detroit didn’t collect on their bills, so they charged everybody else, but Flint, Flint had to pay their bill to Detroit.

Lyons did not follow best journalist practises and failed to say she was recording or who she was, she published the audio on the site Truth Against The Machine, where she is a contributor.

The audio can be heard below and you can read more on the Huff.