Allegheny County Correctional Officer Brian Davis has been fired after he appeared in a video showing him using racial slurs, county officials confirmed on Thursday.

Davis' firing came less than a month after he was suspended . In the video, he used the N-word while holding a baseball bat wrapped in barbed wire that says "[N-word] beater."

Now, Allegheny County Jail officials are also looking into other complaints about Davis made by inmates, Warden Trevor Wingard said.

"It needed to happen," Allegheny County Council and Allegheny County Jail Oversight Board Member Bethany Hallam said of the firing. "It was a sense of relief that finally we're seeing some accountability for the people who are abusing the incarcerated individuals on a regular basis."

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