Despotism (Encyclopedia Britannica film, circa 1946)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaWSqboZr1w
“A community is low on a ‘Respect’ scale if common courtesy is withheld from large groups of people on account of their political attitudes.”
Posted on 06/29/2021 12:15:19 PM PDT by White Lives Matter
A detention lieutenant was fired from the Bexar County Sheriff’s Office in Texas for attending the Trump rally in DC on January 6, even though she never entered the Capitol.
Bexar County Sheriff Javier Salazar, who fired Roxanne Mathai for attending the rally, campaigned for Joe Biden during the 2020 election.
Mathai had posted about being at the rally on social media, but never entered the building. She even specifically posted that she had no desire to enter the building and break the law.
Though she was simply exercising her First Amendment rights and attending a rally hosted by the then-President of the United States, Sheriff Salazar immediately began publicly condemning her.
“A day after the riot, Bexar County Sheriff Javier Salazar said Mathai was under investigation both criminally and administratively and that his intent was to not have Mathai ever return to work for BCSO, where she was promoted to detention lieutenant last summer,” local station KSAT 12 reports.
Mathai and her lawyer recently sat down with One America News to discuss what is being done to her.
(Excerpt) Read more at thegatewaypundit.com ...
Dems know how to settle scores.
The sheriff should be charged with malfeasance or misfeasance and relieved of duty.
I believe he should too. What he did was legally wrong.
Sue them onto the street, get so much you never have to go into that jail again.
Looks like a nice, patriotic lady. I too hope she kicks his hat in the dirt in a lawsuit.
Yep. Apparently this sheriff’s department has a mole who monitors the employees social media and rats them out.
What kind of Sheriff would campaign for Biden?
I know, I know, but Sheriffs are elected at the county level and it’s no longer standard to believe elections where machines tabulate counts are legit.
Any sheriff who supports Biden needs to lose his job.
There is lot's to love about Texas but it was Democrat central until the mid eighties and there is lot's still in the law books reflecting that history.
Despotism (Encyclopedia Britannica film, circa 1946)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaWSqboZr1w
“A community is low on a ‘Respect’ scale if common courtesy is withheld from large groups of people on account of their political attitudes.”
“Dems know how to settle scores.”
No, sometimes the Democrats try to settle scores with people who find such score settling amusing.
“I won!” makes for a fine epitaph.
Its San Antonio, and it massively sucks.
Been a craphole forever.
If the courts were not so corrupt then she would have a heck of big lawsuit settlement.
Agree. I think she has a pretty clear case. She was engaging in legitimate political activity and is being punished for it.
Sheriffs are elected officials and typically get fired at the polls and/or sued. There’s no one to relieve them of duty, they answer to the electorate. This is why all those local down-ballot races are important.
De Sheriff won reelection in 2020 with 62% of the vote.
Not exactly a close race.
Thanks for posting that link.
Too bad they won’t show this, in schools, anymore.
I bet half of the millennials (and, younger) cannot even define despotism.
I am not sure how this attendance could be criminalized. Something is missing here.
I hope she is speaking to a lawyer. You can be sure if she wasn’t an “officer” the union would have something to say.
I’m sure there are many respectable Sheriffs in Texas that would be more than happy to get her on a lateral transfer, keeping her seniority and job position.
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