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FBI Agents Who Knelt During George Floyd Protest Sue Trump Admin, Float 'Real' Reason They Did It
Red State ^ | 12/10/2025 | Beck Noble

Posted on 12/10/2025 8:50:37 PM PST by SeekAndFind

When we look back in time, 2020 will not be remembered for many good things. Most notably, a worldwide pandemic and the shutting down of society that came with it, and the worldwide protests that followed the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis. There will always be professional protesters, but in the case of Floyd's death, the rush to virtue signal made otherwise rational people do irrational things. Even law enforcement officers hurried to "take a knee" in supposed solidarity with protesters. But now, some of those law enforcement officers are crying foul and want to give the "real" explanation of why they sided with violent protesters.

This lawsuit will drag on for years, and they won’t get their jobs back. An FBI Director can hire and fire whomever he wants. https://t.co/aLCjsmWnRM— Phil Kennedy (@PhillipAKennedy) December 8, 2025


READ MORE: New FBI Busts: Traitors, Smugglers, and Russian Bribers Locked Up


You might remember the twelve FBI agents who knelt during a Floyd protest in Washington, D.C. Because there is a new FBI sheriff in town in the form of FBI Director Kash Patel, those agents were fired in September. Now, they are suing the Trump administration to get their jobs back. A statement from the FBI Agents Association read in part:

As Director Patel has repeatedly stated, nobody is above the law. But rather than providing these agents with fair treatment and due process, Patel chose to again violate the law by ignoring these agents’ constitutional and legal rights instead of following the requisite process.

The agents also claim that Patel fired them because they were seen as not being politically aligned with President Donald Trump. But what they claim is the "real" reason they were kneeling, and their historical comparison of it that is the best part. The agents claim that their kneeling was not a political expression, but instead, was an attempt to de-escalate a potentially violent situation. The partial explanation in the lawsuit, however, is much more...shall we say...colorful.

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. 

The Boston Massacre? Isn't that just a tad melodramatic and quite a reach? The lawsuit also goes on to claim that the agents were not provided with “sufficient equipment for responding to civil unrest, such as riot shields, gas masks, helmets, or other tactical gear.”

FBI agents:
1) joined the mob,
2) were fired,
3) now suing.

https://t.co/1SS8ewXne2— The New American Media (@American_Media_) December 10, 2025

No one likely ordered these agents to kneel, and why should they? They are agents of the most premier law enforcement agency in the world. But the whole thing smacks a bit like a Nuremberg "we were just following orders" kind of thing. Was there a kind of herd mentality — one did it, and the others followed? Could the "real" explanation be equally disturbing? George Floyd protests were some of the most violent this nation has seen since the Civil Rights protests of the '60s. Did it just come down to a simple case of "we agree with you, don't beat us up?" 


ALSO READ: Finally. Pro-BLM FBI Agents Find Out Over the Infamous Photo of Them Kneeling for Protestors.


That explanation lines up with the lawsuit, which claims that the agents were in the middle of a chaotic situation in which the crowd started to "intentionally" push towards them and became "increasingly agitated" once they realized who the agents were. Some in the crowd began to chant "take a knee." The agents who were closest to the crowd did so, and others followed suit. The claim from the agents was that it was the “most tactically sound means to prevent violence and to maintain order.” No one wants violence, but the most tactically sound move is to give in to the bully?

The lawsuit is also asking for the agents to be reinstated, a court judgment saying the firings were unconstitutional, back pay and other monetary damages, and expungement of personnel files. But you have to wonder, if these agents are reinstated, and a situation gets sketchy, who will they kneel for next?

Do these morons not realize they work for the AMERICAN PEOPLE???12 FBI agents fired for kneeling during racial justice protest sue to get their jobs back - ABC News https://t.co/pfaRRauQQl— Angie (@angie_anson) December 10, 2025



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1 posted on 12/10/2025 8:50:37 PM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

It took until September to fire that human garbage? Kash is a real go getter.


2 posted on 12/10/2025 8:55:49 PM PST by HYPOCRACY (Wake up, smell the cat food in your bank account. )
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To: SeekAndFind

bunch of jerkoffs. Who needs them.


3 posted on 12/10/2025 9:00:39 PM PST by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative. )
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To: SeekAndFind

You kneel before violent BLM rioters, you go.
BUH BYE!


4 posted on 12/10/2025 9:07:10 PM PST by SmokingJoe
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To: SeekAndFind
Those pandering FBI agents put every law enforcement officer at the Democrat Riots of 2020 at risk when they knelt in submission to them, and put every law enforcement officer at risk going forward.

The emboldened terrorists have murdered Federal agents, including ICE officers, and continue to attack them.

5 posted on 12/10/2025 9:39:27 PM PST by T.B. Yoits
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"The agents claim that their kneeling was not a political expression, but instead, was an attempt to de-escalate a potentially violent situation."

So if these same agents are confronted by a guy with an AR-15 pointed at them, they're going to put down their weapons to de-escalate a potentially violent situation?

ROFL!! What ultra-maroons.

6 posted on 12/10/2025 9:46:35 PM PST by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: SeekAndFind

If we had started blowing up drug boats back then, George Floyd might still be alive today.


7 posted on 12/10/2025 10:17:11 PM PST by Bernard ("Nothing is as expensive as that which the government provides for free." - Ronald Reagan)
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To: SeekAndFind

F ‘em


8 posted on 12/10/2025 10:31:59 PM PST by Az Joe (25 YEARS ON FREE REPUBLIC! 11/01/2025, 700+ POSTS, 15,500+ REPLIES - "MADE IT MA, TOP OF THE WORLD!")
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To: Az Joe

At least 4 of them are women. Women don’t belong in a combat situation.

DIE hires, just like the squishes in Butler.


9 posted on 12/10/2025 10:52:55 PM PST by Surrounded_too (LE)
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To: HYPOCRACY

Should have been fired by August? sheesh I imagine Director Patel was rather busy with hundreds of duties when he took over. Be pleased it got done.


10 posted on 12/10/2025 10:54:30 PM PST by citizen (A transgender malel competing against women may be male, but he's no man.)
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To: SeekAndFind

The George Floyd riots served to prevent the re-election of President Trump. The use of George Floyd was a fabrication to justify the riots. The effort to play the Race Card began with the tearing down of historical Civil War statues. This action was done to goad the conservatives and set the stage for unrest that would dominate the news away from Trump.


11 posted on 12/10/2025 10:59:45 PM PST by jonrick46 (Leftniks chase illusions of motherships at the end of the pier.)
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To: HYPOCRACY

It took that long because, contrary to their claims of “But rather than providing these agents with fair treatment and due process, Patel chose to again violate the law by ignoring these agents’ constitutional and legal rights instead of following the requisite process” the agency did follow the rules.


12 posted on 12/11/2025 1:18:55 AM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: SeekAndFind

Ars3s..all of them...do they stop and prayer at pro life demonstrations.?


13 posted on 12/11/2025 1:27:53 AM PST by cherry
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To: SeekAndFind

“ unconstitutional”? Where the Constitution does it say that?


14 posted on 12/11/2025 3:01:33 AM PST by GrumpyOldGuy
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To: Surrounded_too

Yes


15 posted on 12/11/2025 3:02:46 AM PST by Az Joe (25 YEARS ON FREE REPUBLIC! 11/01/2025, 700+ POSTS, 15,500+ REPLIES - "MADE IT MA, TOP OF THE WORLD!")
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To: Az Joe

Look at the simp on the left having to use the cement wall for support to kneel. Smh


16 posted on 12/11/2025 3:10:24 AM PST by Kudsman (Is it true , the Taliban is paid $45 million per week, by you? )
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To: Az Joe

And Bertha Butt center stage can’t even see her toes. She ain’t kneeling, no way, no how. Just their for immoral support.


17 posted on 12/11/2025 3:13:58 AM PST by Kudsman (Is it true , the Taliban is paid $45 million per week, by you? )
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To: piasa

Yeah okay. 9 months to “due process” fire a bunch of agents who sided with terrorists. You defenders of this jerkoff slow walking everything are sickening.


18 posted on 12/11/2025 3:35:28 AM PST by HYPOCRACY (Wake up, smell the cat food in your bank account. )
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To: citizen

Yeah. Keep defending this POS slow walking any type of reform. They should have been fired day 1 like all the scumbags involved in Jan. 6. Like this deep state prick promised when he lobbied for the job.


19 posted on 12/11/2025 3:37:42 AM PST by HYPOCRACY (Wake up, smell the cat food in your bank account. )
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To: SeekAndFind

Federal surrender monkeys.


20 posted on 12/11/2025 3:50:57 AM PST by Brooklyn Attitude (The DemocRATic party is a treasonous America hating cult.)
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