New Jersey corrections officer suspended and a FedEx worker fired after a video showed the two men, who are both white, mocking George Floyd’s death at a protest.
Video posted on social media shows one of the men, whose names have not been released, shouting,"Comply with the cops and this wouldn't happen."
In response to the incident, the New Jersey Department of Corrections revealed that one of the counterprotesters mocking Floyd was an employee. “We have been made aware that one of our officers participated in the filming of a hateful and disappointing video that mocked the killing of George Floyd,” the department said in a statement posted on social media. “The individual has been suspended and banned from NJDOC facilities pending a thorough and expedited investigation.”
FedEx said another person involved in the incident was one of their employees who has since been terminated. “We do not tolerate the kind of appalling and offensive behavior depicted in this video,” the company said in a statement to NBC News on Wednesday. “The individual involved is no longer employed by FedEx.”“Mocking George Floyd’s murder in effort to belittle the calls for justice from our Black and Brown communities is repugnant,” theBen Kesslen
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