Posted on 06/19/2020 3:00:45 PM PDT by snarkytart
A California man who was fired from his job earlier this month over a picture of his hand said he was cracking his knuckles and was not intending to form an alleged white power gesture, NBC 7 San Diego reported.
Emmanuel Cafferty was fired from his position at San Diego Gas and Electric (SDG&E) after a fellow driver on the road took a picture of his arm hanging out of one of the company’s trucks.
The Twitter user wrote in a now-deleted post that the SDG&E employee, later identified as Cafferty, was using a white power symbol near a Black Lives Matter rally in Poway, Calif.
Cafferty, who is Mexican American, told the outlet that he was just cracking his knuckles outside of the window and had no idea that the gesture could have a racist intent.
“It’s scary that you can be charged, tried and convicted on social media, without your permission, with no corroborating evidence, of any type,” Cafferty said
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Coulda been thumping a booger off his finger.
To sum it up, a man was followed by someone when they spotted his hand out of his truck making a so-called white power sign with his fingers, and posted it to twitter and it got him fired. Turns out he was just cracking his knuckles.
Sue the bastards
All of them
ahh nothing like having a company screw you for stupid reasons so you can sue the pants off them!
This sort of thing is exactly what monster lawsuits are for. These people are beyond asinine.
And it isn’t even the alleged White power sign which is the same as the old okay sign.
No matter what he was doing, he shouldn’t have been fired.
but we see every day black power signs and nothing is said!!! This country needs to be sorted out on their hypocrisy
especially since the black power sign is held up by even black elected officials.
denny hamlin got accused of it and all he was doing was signalling this was his third win this season...and I think he won all three stages of the race
“Cafferty, who is Mexican American”
The polls must show that Mexican Americans are not reliably Democrat. That is unforgivable.
Emmanuel’s lawyer will enable him and the lawyer to have a great retirement on San Diego Gas and Electric (SDG&E)!
The snake, who turned him in, will get to know Karma very well.
I just tried to do a signal of three with my hand. Much easier to do to it with the last three fingers...and it is a struggle for me to do it quickly with my hand i dont write with for the pinkie and thumb grab
Think I’ll just stick with the middle finger salute.
Can’t avoid it on FascistBook, which I’m forced to use to stay in touch with relatives.
Well, how about a Thumbs up" sign.?? Is that OK..? A wave of the hand.? Or is it just the whiteness of the hand itself they find so offensive..?
Not all Mexican and Mexican American people have Spanish last names. Hall of Fame quarterback Jim Plunkett and former Mexican president Vicente Fox are two examples.
He should just say he’s gay and then he can’t be fired
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