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struggle4progress

(118,041 posts)
Fri Jun 10, 2016, 02:35 PM Jun 2016

Confederate flag underwear policeman says N Charleston fired him because he’s white (SC)

Andrew Knapp
Jun 10 2016 12:01 pm

A former North Charleston police officer who appeared on Facebook in Confederate flag underwear says he was fired because he’s white.

Sgt. Shannon Dildine posted the photograph of himself five days after Dylann Roof fatally shot nine black worshippers at Charleston’s Emanuel AME Church.

In a federal lawsuit filed this week, Dildine said he was aware of a debate about the Confederate battle flag flying outside the Statehouse. To him, the banner represented defiance of big government. But he did not know, he said, that Roof used it as a symbol of white supremacy or hatred of black people.

City officials fired the officer within days, saying the image was inflammatory and showed poor judgment ...


http://www.postandcourier.com/20160610/160619955/policeman-with-confederate-flag-underwear-says-north-charleston-fired-him-because-hes-white

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Confederate flag underwear policeman says N Charleston fired him because he’s white (SC) (Original Post) struggle4progress Jun 2016 OP
No, they fired you because you're a stupid racist. Beowulf Jun 2016 #1
No, Shannon, they fired you because you're a tone deaf, uninformed idiot Warpy Jun 2016 #2
You know he's going to sue yeoman6987 Jun 2016 #3
And the city should pay JustABozoOnThisBus Jun 2016 #5
He's not accused of a crime. He was fired because his job as a policeman requires him struggle4progress Jun 2016 #7
Didn't know the Confederate flag had brown colors. Eleanors38 Jun 2016 #4
Yes, yellow spots and brown stripes. JustABozoOnThisBus Jun 2016 #8
Yes.....those colors run. nt msanthrope Jun 2016 #9
The irony he missed GulfCoast66 Jun 2016 #6

Warpy

(110,913 posts)
2. No, Shannon, they fired you because you're a tone deaf, uninformed idiot
Fri Jun 10, 2016, 02:44 PM
Jun 2016

Now go home quietly and kiss the flag--while you're wearing it.

JustABozoOnThisBus

(23,283 posts)
5. And the city should pay
Fri Jun 10, 2016, 06:06 PM
Jun 2016

He's a dumb racist cop with bad taste in underwear and posting.

Other than that, what was his crime?

I think the first amendment protects this offensive, but not particularly harmful, expressive art form. Unless, of course, the contents of Facebook are addressed in his employment agreement.

I think he and his lawyer will be handsomely rewarded for the city's over-reaction.

struggle4progress

(118,041 posts)
7. He's not accused of a crime. He was fired because his job as a policeman requires him
Fri Jun 10, 2016, 10:45 PM
Jun 2016

to be able to work effectively with the area's significant minority population --- and there is good reason to believe he can't do that, based on his insensitive promotion of the confederate flag within a few days of a racially-motivated mass-murder by a white supremacist who had himself been promoting that flag





GulfCoast66

(11,949 posts)
6. The irony he missed
Fri Jun 10, 2016, 06:38 PM
Jun 2016

Is that he made it literally the shit stained banner. Figuratively it has been from the get-go.

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