Kalyn Chapman James, who hosts weekly art program the Art Loft on WPBT2, recorded a two-minute long Facebook clip in her car outside her local church while struggling to hold back tears.
In it the 1993 Miss Alabama admitted that she felt little towards the five officers killed when Micah Johnson opened fire during a rally in the Texas city last week.
The married former beauty queen said: 'I don't feel sad for the officers who lost their lives and I know that's not really my heart.
'I value human life. And I want to feel sad for them but I can't help but feeling like the shooter was a martyr.
'I don't want to feel this way and I know it's not the right way to feel because nobody deserves to lose their lives. But I'm sick of this.'
'I can't stop replaying the image of these men being killed in my mind and my heart weeps.'
'And I know that those police officers had families and people who loved them and that they didn't deserve to die but I'm so torn up in my heart about seeing these men these black men being gunned down in our community that I can't help, I can't help but feel like I wasn't surprised by what the shooter did to those cops and I think a lot of us feel the same way.'
Channel WPBT2 issued a statement on its Twitter account Monday afternoon saying: 'WPBT2 South Florida PBS does not condone the personal statements made by one of its independent contractors regarding the events in Dallas.'
'It placed the contractor on administrative leave while it actively and carefully looks further into the matter and will determine additional course of actions based on its thorough review of the matter.
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