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SDG&E Worker Fired Over Alleged Racist Gesture Says He Was Cracking Knuckles
NBC San Diego ^ | 06 15 2020 | Priya Sridhar

Posted on 06/16/2020 11:16:15 AM PDT by yesthatjallen

It all started about two weeks ago near a Black Lives Matter rally in Poway when Emmanuel Cafferty, a San Diego Gas and Electric employee, encountered a stranger on the roadway.

The stranger followed Cafferty and took a picture of him as his arm hung out the window of his company truck.

The picture made the rounds on Twitter accompanied by a claim Cafferty was making a "white power" hand gesture made popular by white supremacists groups.

According to the Anti-Defamation League, the gesture -- made by forming a circle with the thumb and index finger, and extending and separating the other three fingers -- has been used in recent years by white supremacists to form the letters W and P, but has also long been used as a sign signifying "OK" or approval. Therefore it shouldn't be assumed to be a white supremacy symbol unless there is other evidence to support those claims, according to the ADL.

Cafferty claims he was just cracking his knuckles.

SNIP

Cafferty is Mexican American and says he comes from a diverse family of all races. He says he's proud of SDG&E for taking any allegations of racism seriously, but he wants his job back.

SNIP

(Excerpt) Read more at nbcsandiego.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: chat; emmanuelcafferty; localnews; ok; sdge; whitepower
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To: yesthatjallen

He LOST HIS JOB over this idiocy?

Stalin would be proud.


21 posted on 06/16/2020 11:37:57 AM PDT by HereInTheHeartland (Leave me alone, I have no incriminating evidence on the Clintons)
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To: yesthatjallen

I feel awful for the guy. I saw his interview at the link. I hope there is some recourse against this company. What complete and utter bullshit.


22 posted on 06/16/2020 11:40:01 AM PDT by beaversmom (Trump for Cali gov 2026. Make CA great again.)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie
The 4-chan idiots started this crap with Pepe the frog.

Yup. There is some other stuff they've done, but I don't remember it. They take innocuous stuff and spread the rumor that it represents "White Power", and they get gullible libs to spread it.

I think they are trying to make everything about "White Power" to the point where anyone can see it has become ridiculous. If everything is about "White Power", then nothing is actually about "White Power."

23 posted on 06/16/2020 11:40:39 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: yesthatjallen
NBC 7 spoke to the man who originally posted the picture on Twitter. He has since deleted his account and said he may have gotten "spun up" about the interaction and misinterpreted it. He says he never intended for Cafferty to lose his job.

The guy is clearly hispanic, and not even a "white hispanic". He wasn't even using the correct fingers for the alleged evil OK sign, and the accuser isn't sure he used the sign.

While CA is an "at will employment" state, meaning an employer can fire you at any time without reason, SDG&E made the mistake of firing him specifically for this act. I'd say Mr Cafferty needs a good lawyer. Unless there is more to the story, SDG&E will probably pay him rather than rehire him.

24 posted on 06/16/2020 11:42:25 AM PDT by ETCM
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To: Kickass Conservative
<>"What the hell is wrong with this Country?"<>

In a word: Liberals! Bad case of Karen-a virus.

25 posted on 06/16/2020 11:42:36 AM PDT by Aevery_Freeman (Freedom Is In Peril! Defend it with your life.)
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To: Mopp4
Good Lord....some snowflake a$$hole probably just driving around looking for shit to video. Then make it out to be something it's not.....so irritating...

It is annoying!

26 posted on 06/16/2020 11:42:42 AM PDT by cloudmountain
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To: yesthatjallen

Fire a Mexican American for some specious claim of sign throwing?

Even if he was part of some A-hole group he the right of free speech.

This whole sign throwing thing is a new phenomena invented by a bunch of boogey men lookers, who see them everywhere


27 posted on 06/16/2020 11:46:31 AM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: DiogenesLamp
"The trolls at 4 chan made up this crap, and liberals are so stupid they swallowed this con hook line and sinker."

The 4 chan trolls are great, but the #pissforequality troll has to be one of my favorites.

#PissForEquality

28 posted on 06/16/2020 11:47:08 AM PDT by Zack Attack
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To: JBW1949
Notice how Libertarians have been very silent lately?

Well … you know … a lot of states, they … uhhhhhh … they legalized the … you know … and, so … well … you can't stay up on current events and … wait … what was the question?

29 posted on 06/16/2020 11:47:26 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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To: DiogenesLamp

The most recent troll I heard from 4chan was to convince white women to shave there head in support of blm. Many did.. classic!


30 posted on 06/16/2020 11:48:14 AM PDT by PilotDave (No, really, you just can't make this stuff up!!)
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To: yesthatjallen
...encountered a stranger on the roadway.

The stranger followed Cafferty and took a picture of him...

Ah, I wonder about the nature of the "encounter." The tolerant left on display again. Disagree with their agenda, their policies, dare to hold a different world view or opinion... All that acceptance and diversity goes out the window. (pun intended) Out come the jackboots and brown shirts. You will be followed. You will be harassed. You will lose your livelihood. The left demands conformance or there will be consequences.

31 posted on 06/16/2020 11:49:27 AM PDT by ThunderSleeps
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To: ClearCase_guy

??????


32 posted on 06/16/2020 11:52:47 AM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC.....Patriotically Correct)
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To: Veggie Todd
"He's doing it wrong - that's not his index finger."

HAHAHA. It's the seriousness of the charge (not that this is)not the facts. Both the company and the activist snowflake need to pay a price, but how in the current environment.

33 posted on 06/16/2020 11:52:58 AM PDT by Truth29
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To: PilotDave
The most recent troll I heard from 4chan was to convince white women to shave there head in support of blm. Many did.. classic!

4chan is doing what needs to be done. Making fools of the enemy is the best way to fight them.

34 posted on 06/16/2020 11:53:15 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: yesthatjallen
You mean this one?


35 posted on 06/16/2020 11:54:52 AM PDT by skimbell
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To: DiogenesLamp
leaving white pieces of paper all over a University campus and telling them the papers represent "White Power."

Thanks for the warning.

I guess holding a white index card in a business meeting could get you fired these days.
36 posted on 06/16/2020 11:55:23 AM PDT by cgbg (Kneeling is a half measure--lefties need to dig a six foot hole and bury themselves in it.)
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To: JBW1949

I’m just joking that the only serious issue for the Libertarian Party is the legalization of marijuana and now that so many states have achieved that, the Libertarians are all too stoned to care about any other political issues involving Big Government of loss of freedom.

Just some gentle fun.


37 posted on 06/16/2020 11:58:53 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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To: yesthatjallen

This is WAY past insanity. We have lost the country. It’s gone. I need to change my user name. You get fired for doing nothing in this no-longer great country. You thought it would stop at the confederate flag. You were wrong. It’s now for NOTHING. OH, I’m sorry. Look at the skin shade of his arm. Understand now?


38 posted on 06/16/2020 12:11:50 PM PDT by I want the USA back (Never forget Justine Damond, murdered by a NON-WHITE, NON-CHRISTIAN cop. (Oh, and no riots))
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To: yesthatjallen

39 posted on 06/16/2020 12:14:19 PM PDT by LibWhacker
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To: yesthatjallen

First off. It is not a white power gesture. That crap was made up to see just how easy it is to punk the Left. When my son was in H.S. the gesture was nothing more than a kind of gotcha to look motion.


40 posted on 06/16/2020 12:14:27 PM PDT by lastchance (Credo.)
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