U.S. Mint worker placed on leave for putting noose on black colleague's chair
Source: CBS/AP News
July 7, 2017, 9:33 AM
PHILADELPHIA -- The U.S. Mint in Philadelphia put an employee on administrative leave after a noose was found at the plant on the chair of an African-American colleague.
The unidentified employee created the noose with rope used to seal coin bags once they're full, according to the president of the mint workers union.
Surveillance video captured the employee's actions. Around 3 p.m. June 28, the white male coin maker walked across the factory floor with the noose in hand.
Many African-American workers called and texted the union president the next day, and the U.S. Treasury Department's inspector general launched an internal investigation.
Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/u-s-mint-worker-placed-on-leave-noose-black-colleague/
Why?
hibbing
(10,120 posts)Sneederbunk
(14,321 posts)irisblue
(33,079 posts)Welcome to DU
This idiot needs to be fired
BumRushDaShow
(130,368 posts)Apparently he wanted to "Make America Great (Hate) Again". As a side note, it would seem the guy must be "new" (or maybe extremely arrogant) because that place has always had major surveillance and security. Hell, they literally make "money" there. I knew a couple guys years ago who used to work there.
dhill926
(16,399 posts)but he'll be hard to beat for "asshole of the day..."
Cryptoad
(8,254 posts)hate crime not grounds for being fired??????
haele
(12,713 posts)Both Government and Union employees have a right to a termination hearing. Where he can try to explain how what is clearly a inciting and racial "joke" that will be perceived as an assault (i.e., threat of bodily harm) by any reasonable person is not an offence that ends a career.
A typical moronic defense of "Why can't they take a joke" or "1st Amendment rights!" won't ever apply here.
Every employee, especially one who is supposed to be an adult, still must take responsibility for one's own actions and words.
Haele
IronLionZion
(45,698 posts)back to when minority workers would have been blocked out from these jobs.
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)and claim to be an innocent victim of the PC police
heaven05
(18,124 posts)not surprising......the racist supremacists are enabled and emboldened by their prezident's call to make amerika hate again........time to start leaving black power symbols everywhere, I think I shall... .
nycbos
(6,044 posts)People who do things just suffer from "economic anxiety."
In all seriousness stuff like this makes me mad as hell
AllaN01Bear
(19,029 posts)then they will say, "oh its just a joke". aint funny mcgeee
left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)I thought this was 2017,
not 1917.
BumRushDaShow
(130,368 posts)and of all places, the very toney Rittenhouse Square area -
Link to tweet
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Anna Orso?Verified account @anna_orso
There's currently a noose hanging in a tree at 18th and Lombard in Rittenhouse. Cops are here
http://6abc.com/news/philadelphia-police-investigate-noose-found-in-tree/2192700/
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