The Daily Mail (link provided by George Jefferson)
A
Mississippi Subway 'sandwich artist' has been fired after she created a
social media firestorm Sunday by posting messages applauding the deaths
of two police officers killed in the line of duty.
After
Benjamin Deen, 34, and Liquori Tate, 25, were killed on Saturday night
about 30 miles away in Hattiesburg, Laurel woman Sierra 'C-Babi' Mccurdy
posted a message while wearing her uniform.
She
wrote: 'Two police officers shot tonight in Hattiesburg,' followed by
'GOT EM' and a gun pointed at the words as well as a laughing emoji.
This can hardly be considered a violation of the 1st amendment and in the same breath consider the Mohammed cartoon event an abuse of the 1st amendment. She is celebrating the death of police which while distasteful and highly provocative is simply a statement. However, the fact that she is doing it an a company uniform, presumably on company time and in a company facility she becomes a representative of that company. pretty much any company has rules of conduct for people while they are in uniform and acting as a representative of the organization. Her being fired is hardly a violation.
ReplyDeleteYeah, I guess an employer should be able to fire someone for something like this.
DeleteYeah, I guess an employer should be able to fire someone for something like this.
DeleteSo your "violation of 1A rights" tag was . . . what--an attempt at irony?
Kurt, stop with the fucking gotchas, will ya? I often use tags as prompts for discussion rather than comments. Other times I use them as comments which betray my opinion.
DeleteOh no say it ain't so, MikeB and I agree?
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