South Carolina firefighters fired, station closed over Black Lives Matter posts
People whose job it is to safeguard the community should know better.
…Richland County announced Wednesday it had fired a senior paramedic and said other ambulance service workers are under internal investigation for making inappropriate comments on social media. County officials declined to identify the paramedic or to disclose the language in the postings or to say who they were aimed at…
…someone also called the Eau Claire fire station Monday to complain after now-fired Capt. Jimmy Morris first posted on Facebook his threats to run over protesters who had blocked the I-126 bridge during a march that started at the State House and wended its way through the city center to the interstate.
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Dave W. Proctor, a senior firefighter who was hired in October 2013, and probationary firefighter Edward Augustyn, who was hired in February, were terminated over the Facebook postings, [spokesman Brick] Lewis said.
Proctor was the firefighter who responded to Morrises’ initial Facebook remarks by writing, “Start running people over,” the chief said.
Morris had written on his Facebook page from the Eau Claire station about protesters who had blocked the I-126 access into Columbia. “Better not be there when I get off work or there is gonna be some run over dumb asses,” Morris posted.
A little later, he wrote, “Public Service Announcement: If you attempt to shut down interstate, highway, etc on my way home, you best hope I’m not one of the first vehicles in line because you ass WILL get run over!”
The remarks that got Augustyn fired were not immediately available Wednesday night.
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