The Washington state attorney general’s office fired a chief criminal investigator accused of engaging in 'disrespectful and disruptive' behavior at a restaurant over a waitress's Black Lives Matter pin and then posting about it on Facebook.
A chief investigator for the Washington state attorney general wrote on his bill, "BLM button=no tip. That’s how socialism works," and posted it on Facebook, authorities said.The Washington state attorney general’s office fired a chief criminal investigator accused of engaging in"disrespectful and disruptive" behavior at a restaurant over a waitress's Black Lives Matter pin and then posting about it on Facebook.
"By your actions, you have irreparably compromised your credibility and brought significant embarrassment and disruption to the office," said a letter from Deputy Attorney General Todd Bowers setting out the reasons for Steiger's dismissal.His lawyer, Steven Fogg, told NBC News in an email Saturday that they plan to contest the dismissal:"This is a political firing, pure and simple.
The incident occurred on Sept. 6 when Steiger went to a restaurant in Tacoma with his wife and noticed that the 19-year-old waitress serving him was wearing a BLM pin on her uniform, according to the deputy attorney general’s letter. As he was leaving the restaurant, Steiger complained about the BLM pin to another employee whom he took to be a manager of the establishment, the deputy attorney general's letter said. Toward the end of the conversation,"you raised your voice and verbally called out 'bulls---,'” the letter said."You believe that you likely raised your middle finger in his direction before leaving the restaurant.
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