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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 hes white.
Sgt. Shannon Dildine posted the photograph of himself five days after Dylann Roof fatally shot nine black worshippers at Charlestons 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
Beowulf
(761 posts)Warpy
(110,913 posts)Now go home quietly and kiss the flag--while you're wearing it.
yeoman6987
(14,449 posts)The city will settle out of court. Happens often.
JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,283 posts)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)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
Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,283 posts)The confederacy. He Depends on it.
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)GulfCoast66
(11,949 posts)Is that he made it literally the shit stained banner. Figuratively it has been from the get-go.