Snipes is accused of writing a post on Facebook after George Zimmerman’s acquittal in the 17-year-old’s death that read: “Another thug gone. Pull up your pants and be respectful. Bye bye thug r.i.p.”
Maybe considered insensitive these days (can’t hurt anyone’s feelings!), but true. Not worthy of losing a job though. Which person was more likely to lead a life of crime, Zimmerman or Treyvon?
Freedom of speech, if you say what I think is correct.
He lacked the common sense not to post his “goodby Thug Trayvon” comment on Facebook.
He is a public employee.
There is no way, none, that a public employee could post that on FB and get away with it.
IF he didn’t know that, where’s the common sense?
And, a lot of private businesses would fire a person for posting that. They would think it would impact their businesses in terms of image, customers etc.
It’s not the man’s opinion that’s the problem, it’s posting this on FB for all the world to see that opens him up to the firing.
As soon as I read the headline I knew that the “offender” had to be white. A black employee saying something offensive to Zimmerman supporters, who BTW was found by the jury to have used deadly force only after he was nearly beaten to death by Trayvon, would never be even noticed by the high brass.