Fox News Questions New FDNY Investigation into GoFundMe Campaign
Fox News is questioning why FDNY is investigating a firefighter who started a fundraising effort to help a suspended deputy chief.
Deputy Chief Paul Mannix was suspended recently for 50-days without pay for his involvement in leaks about unqualified minority firefighters reportedly getting special treatment. Chief Mannix was the moving force behind Merit Matters, a group dedicated to maintaining his merit based standards within FDNY. On July 24, Firefighter Anthony Henry created the GoFundMe campaign to help Chief Mannix pay his bills. In roughly a week, 660 people donated over $40,000.
New Haven Firefighters IAFF Local 825 Vice President Frank Ricci was interviewed by Fox to offer his perspective on the allegations. Frank was the lead plaintiff in the reverse discrimination suit, Ricci v. DeStefano, 557 U.S. 557 (2009), that made it clear that efforts to address race discrimination can themselves cross a line and become discriminatory violating white firefighters’ rights to equal protection.
You’d think Fox would be *supporting* this, in that it was a case of “unqualified minority firefighters reportedly getting special treatment.” Fox makes no excuses about oppressing minorities being one of their main goals.
“What has gone wrong with the fire department”? Lt. Alison Greene (LODD) San Francisco FD, in the video, “Some Real a Heat”.
It seems, that FDNY is going about their hiring process in about the worse way possible.
It’s not just the women recruit firefighters going to the stations, without having passed the exit “fire ground” testing, but rather on “points”. It’s also, that previous minority males who applied 10 years ago, but were part of a discriminatory lawsuit are now being hired and…….
They complete their bardic recruit training, go to the stations have, not having completed their probationary period, “carry” their “back dated” senority to the their first test.
“10 years senority, but ‘on the job’ for only six months'”,
What had really gone wrong back there?
And FC Frank Ricci is again having issues with FD again and if he’s correct, I’m certain he’ ll be filing another legal action against them again.