The ad, which reportedly appeared Friday night, showed a uniformed officer with the word: “Choose your future! LAPD is hiring!”

Breitbart has garnered criticism over the years for its incendiary content, with headlines such as “The Smartest People in the World Are All Men” and “Milo: The solution to online ‘harassment’ is simple; Women should log off.”

Multiple advertisers have left the site recently.

The department has denied knowingly placing an ad on the site, telling the Los Angeles Times that such a job listing would conflict with its core values. An LAPD spokesman told Fox News the department was first alerted by its social media team.

Chief Michel Moore

✔@LAPDChiefMoore

No. LAPD did NOT purchase or otherwise acquire ad space on that website.

Senior leadership at LA City Personnel Department also relayed they did not authorize or pay for this ad either.

Both Depts s investigating whether spoof/other effort to discredit LAPD https://twitter.com/BrowningStephen/status/1177774688556027904 …

R. Stephen Browning@BrowningStephen

Replying to @Mikel_Jollett and 2 others

Everyone needs to ask their chief, @LAPDChiefMoore. Let him hear from you.

“No. LAPD did NOT purchase or otherwise acquire ad space on that website,” LAPD Chief Michel Moore tweeted Saturday.

He said the department was trying to determine whether the posting was meant to tarnish its image.

City of Los Angeles personnel department spokesman Bruce Whidden told the Times his department would buy job ads through Google on behalf of the LAPD and other city departments.

The department said Saturday it had stopped Google Ads altogether to “reexamine our ad filters and take all necessary steps to ensure tighter control of ad settings.”

Breitbart spokeswoman Elizabeth Moore issued a statement to the Times saying the company was “one of the most pro-police, pro-law-enforcement news organizations in America.”

Breitbart did not immediately respond to Fox News’ request for comment.

The fatal shooting occurred when off-duty Los Angeles Police Officer Salvador Sanchez opened fire, killing 32-year-old Kenneth French and critically injuring his parents, Russell and Paola French. Sanchez reportedly said he opened fire because he thought he was being attacked by French while he was holding his child.

A federal grand jury on Wednesday declined to bring charges against Sanchez and Riverside County District Attorney Mike Hestrin said his office would not bring its own charges against the officer.

Hestrin said at a news conference that Sanchez believed he had been shot in the head and a shooter was on the loose when he and his son were knocked to the ground in the unprovoked assault.

After opening fire, four bullets struck French in the back and shoulder, one struck his mother in the stomach and another hit his father in the back, Corona police Chief George Johnstone said.

The encounter in the Corona warehouse store spanned just 3.8 seconds. The grand jury was presented with a poor-quality clip of surveillance video and testimony from several witnesses, some of whom had been subpoenaed.

In the video released by prosecutors, the two can be been struggling in the back of the store near where the rotisserie chicken was set out before both fall to the floor.

As gunshots rang out, shoppers throughout the warehouse store ran for cover, with many abandoning baskets and hiding down other aisles.

Ira Salzman, Sanchez’s lawyer, said his client was “gratified” to hear he won’t be charged. Salzman said Sanchez did not testify before the grand jury but had given evidence to the district attorney’s office regarding his state of mind and subsequent medical records showing a concussion.

“Sal believed he was shot,” Salzman said. “The case was a terrible tragedy.”

Dale Galipo, an attorney for the French family, said he was “disappointed but not surprised” by the development. He said he believes prosecutors only took the case to a grand jury to appease the community and may not have pushed hard enough to persuade the jurors.

The French family filed a claim against Sanchez and the LAPD, and their lawyer says they have plans to file a federal lawsuit next month.

The LAPD is also conducting an administrative inquiry into whether Sanchez followed the department’s policies.