Her post was screenshotted and circulated on social media.
A Sacramento nurse who said an unarmed black man “deserved” to be shot by police was fired from her hospital job.
Faith Linthicum was a nurse at Kaiser Permanente's Roseville Medical Center at the time that she posted the controversial Facebook comments saying that Stephon Clark, who was gunned down by police in his grandmother’s backyard on March 18, “deserved it for being stupid,” reports said.
Before Linthicum restricted access to her Facebook page, civil rights activist Christina Arechiga took a screengrab of the comments and shared it on her social media accounts, the Atlanta Journal Constitution reported.
“This woman works in labor and delivery – how can be trust[ed] her with our black and brown babies?” Arechiga wrote on a post that has since been widely circulated.
***update: This nurse is no longer with Kaiser....Posted by Christina Arechiga on Friday, March 23, 2018
Once officials at Linthicum’s job got wind of the post she’d made, she was placed on administrative leave pending and investigation, reports said.
On Thursday, it was announced that the nurse was no longer employed at Kaiser Permanente.
“Kaiser Permanente does not tolerate hate or discrimination…We want to emphasize that the comments expressed by this employee, who is no longer with the organization, do not in any way reflect Kaiser Permanente’s views or actions,” a hospital spokesman said in a statement to the Sacramento Bee.
Officers fired 20 shots at Clark, 22, after they said they believed he had a gun.
They later discovered he was actually holding a cell phone.
Actually doesn't sound like discrimination to me. She didn't say he deserved to be shot because he was black, she said he deserved it because he was stupid. Where's the racism here? Am I missing something?
ReplyDeleteShe was right.
ReplyDeleteHope she sues.
ReplyDeleteMore anti-white racism. According to the nurse, the perp was a victim of his stupidity not his race. Black and brown babies...what the hell is that supposed to mean? As bad as it will be...don't delay the revolution.
ReplyDeleteoh no you don't! you're all gonna get firred!
ReplyDeleteSo we have free speech...but not to keep our jobs if he exercise free speech?
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