Racist Social Media Gets People Fired
Chicago Fire fighter Fired Over Racist Social Media Posts; City Worker Reprimanded For Bringing Gun To O'Hare
CHICAGO (CBS) --A Chicago fire-eater-EMT has been fired, subsequently a watchdog investigation into a series of racist, offensive, and threatening posts on Facebook.
Meantime, the city'southward inspector general also recommended some other urban center worker be fired for bringing a gun to O'Hare International Airdrome, despite not having a valid Firearm Owner's Identification card, due to past criminal convictions, but instead that employee was merely reprimanded.
The latest quarterly study from Inspector General Joseph Ferguson, published on his last twenty-four hour period in function on Friday, revealed a Chicago Burn Department fire fighter-EMT "made multiple racist and offensive comments in posts on their ain Facebook page and on a Facebook post made by a member of the public, in violation of City of Chicago Personnel Rules and CFD Full general Orders."
According to the inspector full general's office, the fire fighter commented several times on another person's Facebook mail, mocking that person'south mother's parenting skills, bold the person and other commenters receive welfare benefits, and suggesting one commenter take their "ass back over the border."
The firefighter's Facebook contour moving picture, showing them and their child in CFD paraphernalia, appeared next to each comment.
The firefighter's own profile page, which was publicly available and included information on their employment with CFD, too revealed multiple racist posts directed at Blacks, Asians, and other minorities.
Those posts included stereotypes of Blackness people equally criminals, and using terms such as "animals" and "hoodrat." The firefighter also insulted an Asian reporter, calling her a false name and "writing in a mocking imitation dialect," according to the inspector general's office.
"Further, the firefighter-EMT seemingly issued praise for violence––advocating for shooting an private in Kenosha and posting a drawing depicting a driver hit protesters with a machine," the written report stated.
The inspector full general's role also determined the firefighter allow others use their page to spread racist content.
The inspector general's function recommended the firefighter be terminated and placed on the city's "practice not hire" list. According to the report, the CFD agreed with that recommendation, and the firefighter has filed a grievance over their termination.
In another investigation, the inspector full general'southward part recommended the city fire a Department of Assets, Information, and Services (AIS) fleet service assistance who brought a loaded gun to O'Hare, and tried to become it through a Transportation Security Administration security checkpoint in bear-on baggage to board a flight to New York.
According to the written report, that worker was also conveying an empty bluecoat wallet, and a pair of handcuffs in their haversack.
That metropolis worker did non have a valid Firearm Possessor'southward Identification bill of fare or a Curtained Comport License, due to prior criminal convictions, and then was not legally allowed to behave or possess firearms or ammunition in Illinois.
The inspector general'due south office said that worker managed to buy the parts needed to assemble a firearm, rather than buy one directly.
The worker was arrested at the O'Hare security checkpoint, and later pleaded guilty to a felony charge of attempting to board an aircraft with a weapon. The worker was sentenced to two years of probation, co-ordinate to the inspector general's report.
The inspector general'south office recommended the AIS employee be fired and placed on the metropolis's "do not hire" list, but the section instead reprimanded the worker, maxim the Constabulary Department advised them it is illegal to discipline a city worker for a crime committed off-duty unless the department tin can clear a substantial connection between the offense and their job, or can show that connected employment "would create an unreasonable run a risk to [the] safety of persons or property."
0 Response to "Racist Social Media Gets People Fired"
Post a Comment