A union representing New York City firefighters is raising concerns over potential disciplinary actions against some of its members.

NEW YORK (AP) — A union representing New York City firefighters is raising concerns about possible disciplinary action against its members after state Attorney General Letitia James was booed and a pro-Donald Trump chant broke out during a fire department ceremony last week.

The Democrat, whose office won a $355 million penalty against the Republican former president for lying about his wealth last month, faced a chorus of jeers as she addressed a department promotions ceremony Thursday in Brooklyn.

    • gdog05@lemmy.world
      35·
      10 months ago

      Don’t fret. Fear not the terrorist firefighters. We have terrorists at every level and in every position of our social fabric. I’m sure that’s going to work out well for everyone.

    • Son_of_dad@lemmy.world
      342·
      10 months ago

      NY firefighters, like cops have been hailed as golden heroes since 9/11 and it really went to their head. Most of these guys weren’t even there, but they act like the city needs to suck their dick constantly.

      • PopcornTin@lemmy.world
        11·
        10 months ago

        Hopefully they will be arrested very soon. The whole institution is corrupt and needs to be defunded.

        • Unskilled5117@feddit.de
          16·
          10 months ago

          I don‘t think that article says what you think it says. First we need to accept your comparison and generalize the study to question wether law enforcement will treat you differently because of political views. And then it clearly states that the LOE treated the participants differently (negatively), because of the political views:

          „Nevertheless, he concluded that it is statistically unlikely that this number of previously ‘safe’ drivers could amass such a collection of tickets without assuming real bias by police against drivers with Black Panther bumper stickers.“

          Note that the “Nevertheless“ is in the context of the police only using the political bumper stickers as reason for citation only once. The rest of the citations were for other reasons. The participants had not been cited in all their driving in the year prior without the stickers. This leads to the mentioned statement by the author