FBI fires agents pictured kneeling at George Floyd protest, US media reports

The FBI fired a group of kneeling in a racial justice protest on the death of the US media report George Floyd.

According to a source specified by the US partner CBS News, the BBC allegedly “lack of judiciary” in the termination letter actions. 15 to 20 agents were reportedly dismissed.

The agents reportedly received the knee with others during a demonstration in 2020. Floyd, a black man, was killed by a police officer who kneeling around his neck and causing a global explosion that year.

FBI Agents Association condemned the dismissal by stating that the rights of representatives were violated. The FBI refused to comment when he contacted the BBC.

The reported fires come when the Trump administration is trying to clean up the federal government from every region of the federal government.

A few right -wing commentators criticized the kneeling agents and police officers on social media.

However, the defenders argue that kneeling is a tactic to reduce tension with protesters, rather than indicating that it accepts the views of agents.

Since the viral images showed Floyd’s killer, white police officer Derek Chauvin, the action became the symbol of the opposition against racism because it was fixed to his neck for more than nine minutes.

In an official examination after Mortem, he found that Floyd had died of a heart attack caused by his neck compression. Chauvin is currently sentenced to 22 and a half years of imprisonment for Floyd’s murder.

The knee was used as a protest against racial injustice and police savagery before Floyd’s murder in the USA – Especially by former NFL player Colin Kaepernick.

The mass dismissal on Friday is the last of a series of ignitions in the FBI.

Spencer Evans, the former manager of the agency’s former acting director Brian Driscoll, Washington Field Office Steven Jensen and former special agent responsible for Las Vegas Field Office has been recently left.

At the beginning of this month, three old agents FBI Director Kash Patel and US Chief Public Prosecutor Pam Bondi filed a lawsuitHe claimed that the authorities had fired them to appease President Donald Trump.

FBI Agents Association said on Friday, Patel’s “dangerous new action model weakens the office” and “talented agents to hire and keep it difficult,” he said.