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The Philadelphia police department has reinstated Christian Fenico, an officer fired in 2019 over Facebook posts saying among other things that refugees should...
Philly police officer fired over Facebook posts reinstated by The Associated Press Last Updated Jun 1, 2021 at 4:44 pm EDT PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The Philadelphia police department has reinstated an officer fired in 2019 over Facebook posts saying among other things that refugees should “starve to death.” The Philadelphia Inquirer reported that officer Christian Fenico was reinstated with full back pay after an arbitrator in a grievance filed with the police union ruled Fenico’s social media posts did not prevent him from being a valuable officer. Fenico’s posts were among hundreds fro...
It was the largest act of mass discipline in Philadelphia police history: 15 cops forced off the job, and dozens more suspended or reprimanded, for making racist, sexist, or discriminatory Facebook posts — all catalogued by advocates in a public database. But in the two years since that scandal hit the city’s Police Department, some of the cops have been fighting back, challenging their ...