Florida Highway Patrol trooper among 2 state employees fired for 'hateful, racist' comments about George Floyd protesters

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'Their conduct is not in any way reflective of the troopers and employees of the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles,' said the agency in announcing the terminations.

A Florida Highway Patrol trooper and a Tallahassee employee of the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles have beenThe two workers had directed “hateful, racist and threatening remarks” toward Florida demonstrators calling for better policing as part of nationwide protests in the wake of Floyd's death in police custody on Memorial Day in Minneapolis.

Long-simmering tensions stoked by police tactics toward black men erupted over the weekend with marches and demonstrations by a diverse group of protesters, many in their teens and 20s, that blocked roadways in Florida cities and elsewhere in the country.In an official tweet, DHSMV said it found remarks by Trooper Daniel Maldonado and William Henderson, who worked at the agency's Tallahassee headquarters,"abhorrent and reprehensible.

"Their conduct is not in any way reflective of the troopers and employees of the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles," said the agency in announcing their termination Tuesday night. “As soon as the department was made aware of these statements, swift and immediate action was taken to terminate their employment,” the DHSMV tweeted.Records show Maldonado had been assigned to Troop F in Southwest Florida. Henderson was an operations review specialist.

James Call is a member of the USA TODAY NETWORK-Florida Capital Bureau. He can be reached at jcall@tallahassee.com. Follow on him Twitter: @CallTallahassee

 

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Until Black's stop committing so many crimes & breeding drug addicts--evryone in the world will work harder 2 remove them fr this planet. From what I see, the Corona is only Phase 1 of that process.

Good start. We must get the racists out of law enforcement!

When will the FBI go inside of some of these Police Departments to weed out the Nationalist?

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