On June 2 last year, a gift store near Times Square in New York City was vandalized and robbed by Black Lives Matter (BLM) protesters. The owner of the store is shown looking through the smashed merchandise case.
A Hopewell, N.J., police officer who called Black Life Matters “terrorists” on Facebook last year was recently convicted of vandalism. The Hopewell Township Police Department fired her and suspended a colleague who followed the post. A Jersey City high school teacher was also suspended after making negative comments about George Floyd in class.
Sara Erwin, a Hopewell Township police officer, wrote on Facebook last June, “Last night when I went to work, my two kids were crying and told me not to go to work. I don’t think I’ve ever felt like I did last night …… I’ve seen a lot of ‘Black Lives Matter expensive ‘ tags in Facebook posts and just to let you know – they are terrorists. They hate me. They hate the uniform I wear. They don’t care if I die.”
Several of her fellow police officers followed her post with likes.
Shortly after the post was made, then-Police Chief Lance Maloney apologized to the community for the post, and Ervin and several of the officers who followed it were investigated and placed on leave, local police said.
The matter was investigated by the Mercer County (Mercer) Prosecutor’s Office, which found no criminality on the part of the person in question, who was then sent back to the township for internal processing.
However, some people remained unrelenting and organized petitions and protests in the town demanding changes in the police department. With a new police chief in place, the town council voted unanimously last Friday night (April 30) to accept the recommendation of hearing officer and attorney Brian P. Trelease to fire police officer Sarah Ervin, and another officer who followed up on the comments, Sgt. Mandy Grey, was suspended and stripped of his rank.
Frank Crivelli, the officers’ attorney, said both officers were exemplary officers with commendations and “absolutely no disciplinary record” and that the township’s punitive action against them was “shameful and cowardly. The township’s actions against them were “shameful and cowardly.
Cleverly said the punishments were shocking because both officers, who have more than two decades of experience in the public service, had not been the subject of any prior internal affairs complaints. Both men have appealed to Superior Court, and the township’s action will raise many discussions, including the issue of the First Amendment – freedom of speech.
Not coincidentally, Howard Zlotkin, a science teacher at Dickinson High School in Jersey City (Jersey City), spoke about George Freud during a classroom discussion of climate change .
According to a recording aired by WNBC-TV, Zlotkin said people were “complaining and crying about ‘black lives are expensive. Zlotkin called Floyd a “criminal” who was “arrested and killed for disobeying orders,” while Floyd was continually treated as a “hero.
Zlotkin’s comment caused an outcry and on-the-spot debate among four students, and was reported.
Zlotkin was promptly suspended with pay. Superintendent Franklin Walker told the media that the language used by Zlotkin was “unacceptable” and that “the comments made were so biased that he should not be having this discussion with the kids — it’s not relevant to the subject matter in the classroom. -It was not relevant to the subject matter in the classroom.”
Zlotkin, who has worked at Dickinson High School for 20 years, has also been suspended with pay from his adjunct professorship at Hudson County Community College, NJ.com reported.
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