New Hampshire State Representative James Spillane shamelessly exposed his bigotry to the public when he incited violence against Black Lives Matter supporters.

“Public Service Announcement,” Spillane wrote in a Facebook post earlier this month, according to the Concord Monitor. “If you see a BLM sign on a lawn, it’s the same as having a porch light on at Halloween. You are free to burn and loot that house.”

According to WMUR-TV, the post is now deleted, but the Civil Rights Unit is conducting an investigation to determine whether Spillane's conduct constituted a violation of the New Hampshire Civil Rights Act.

“Members of the public who support the Black Lives Matter movement have expressed fear that they may become targets of violence as the result of Rep. Spillane’s post,” Sean Locke, Director of the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Unit, wrote in a letter to House Speaker Steve Shurtleff.

In response to the letter, Shurtleff called for Spillane’s immediate resignation, calling the post “inexcusable” and an “incitement of violence that put the lives of Granite Staters in jeopardy.“

Jordan Thompson, a racial justice organizer for the ACLU of New Hampshire, said that Spillane's remarks indicate a lack of respect for Black lives.

"This is yet another example of what we mean when we say New Hampshire is not innocent," Thompson said in a statement. "It is incumbent on all of us to be honest about the reality that white supremacy exists in the Granite State.”

Spillane, who is running for reelection this year, faced more backlash last year when he tweeted a graphic photo of a squirrel he shot in his yard. His tainted history also includes conviction of DUI and reckless conduct in 2010, as well as driving with an open container in 2018.

“Rep. Spillane has been involved in numerous incidents over the past few years, but nothing of this magnitude,” Shurtleff told WMUR-TV. “It’s outrageous that with what our country is going through, he is adding fuel to the fire.”

New Hampshire Democratic Party Chair Raymond Buckley called Spillane's latest post a dangerous call to violence.

"Spillane and other members of the Republican party are enabled by Donald Trump who has routinely attacked and belittled people of color and the Black Lives Matter movement, and by Chris Sununu who doesn’t believe systematic racism exists in New Hampshire,” Buckley said in a statement, CBSN Boston reported.

In a statement given to WMUR-TV, House Republican Leader Richard Hinch sympathized with the disgraced elected official.

“I trust he meant no harm to anyone. He deleted the post prior to news reports, which to me acknowledges he realized it was highly inappropriate," Hinch said.

Spillane is one of many elected officials who has shown a repulse for the BLM movement in the months following the nationwide unrest sparked by the killing of George Floyd.

In California, Irvine Mayor Christina Shea described the movement as destructive and radical behavior, according to the Daily Pilot.

“I will not allow my city to become a location for expressions of anger and hate against my residents and my stellar police force who I stand behind 100%,” Shea said in a video posted online.

In Durant, Oklahoma, Mayor Oden Grube went to Facebook to share hateful comments about the Black Lives Matter Movement and the transgender community, News12 reported.

"We don’t care about your precious feelings and will no longer pretend a dude in a dress is a woman," the mayor wrote.

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