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Posted on 12/09/2025 7:27:25 AM PST by dennisw
Twelve former FBI agents fired after kneeling during a 2020 racial justice protest in Washington sued Monday to get their jobs back, saying their action had been intended to de-escalate a volatile situation and was not meant as a political gesture.
The agents say in their lawsuit that they were fired in September by Director Kash Patel because they were perceived as not being politically affiliated with President Donald Trump. But they say their decision to take a knee on June 4, 2020, days after the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police, has been misinterpreted as political expression.
The lawsuit says the agents were assigned to patrol the nation's capital during a period of civil unrest prompted by Floyd's death. Lacking protective gear or extensive training in crowd control, the agents became outnumbered by hostile crowds they encountered and decided to kneel to the ground in hopes of defusing the tension, the lawsuit said. The tactic worked, the lawsuit asserts — the crowds dispersed, no shots were fired and the agents “saved American lives" that day.
“Plaintiffs were performing their duties as FBI Special Agents, employing reasonable de-escalation to prevent a potentially deadly confrontation with American citizens: a Washington Massacre that could have rivaled the Boston Massacre in 1770,” says the lawsuit, which was filed by attorneys with the Washington Litigation Group.
The FBI declined to comment Monday.
The lawsuit in federal court in Washington represents the latest court challenge to a personnel purge that has roiled the FBI, targeting both top-ranking supervisors and line agents, as Patel has worked to reshape nation's premier law enforcement agency. Besides the kneeling agents, other employees pushed out recent months have worked on investigations involving Trump or his allies and in one case displayed LGBTQ+ flag in his workspace.
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“Racial justice”. Yeah …. right
They are having a fine old time
looks like all but one, maybe two (in the back) are pasty white and very likely liberal chicks....how shocking!!!
In the old days that was called a kowtow.
The Nome Field Office needs agents.
“misinterpreted as political expression”
Jackie Chiles: “So ... what you’re saying is that you determined that ‘taking a knee’ would save you from being beaten and raped by a bunch of rampaging Amish youth. Is that correct?”
The picture you included is worth 10,000 words... This isn’t your father’s FBI.
Yep, they were very special agents.
They can get a job doing theft control at Target.
A FBI “GHETTOPOTAMOUS” ????
Derek Chauvin was railroaded by egg-sucking Minnesota democrats.
Free Chauvin!
Talk about being creative, this defense makes me laugh at the extremes lawyers will go through to defend their clients.
Gross AP spin. Bad judgment has consequences. The woke agents politicized the FBI. It was/is a disgrace. No excuse for their actions.
Anyone who knelt for that crap is dead to me. They are nothing but sniveling cowards unworthy of respect.
I gues they never heard of “as a man or on my knees”?
Looks like all of them didn’t get down, so it clearly was done in support, not in fear.
I see the FIB has physical standards, yippee, I feel safer already. Lots of good DEI there.
Baloney!
The fat one couldn’t find her holster around all that flab
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