I'm going to avoid Tampa now that they've fired the guy whose job it was to maintain the traffic...I assume the traffic is in an awful mess by now.
"He got fired for having a license plate which is officially issued by the state he lives in. Somehow that doesn't make sense."
No, it doesn't. But does Florida really issue a confederate flag license plate? I think Florida is one of a few states that only require one license plate, rather than two, so many Florida cars have vanity "plates" in the front. Maybe this was one of those.
I suspect Florida is one of those states that only has an official license plate on the rear of the automobile and he had placed his own CSA Flag Tag on the front.