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You Tube Ad Leads To 3 Day Suspension
The Orlando district chief who appeared in uniform with a city vehicle in a YouTube ad for a new fishing product has learned his fate: a three-day suspension without pay.
District Chief Danny Wilson appeared in the video earlier this year marketing a new product, the Rod Defender, that protects fishing rods. The video prompted concerns about a possible ethics violation as Chief Wilson was using his position and city property to promote a personal business.
No word yet on whether Chief Wilson or the union will appeal the penalty.
How does stuff like this continue to happen in the fire service? Are there still members unaware of the perils of intermingling their careers with social media? Don’t people read?
“We’ll always have cases like this because we have one big problem in selecting police officers, we have to recruit from the human race.” — LAPD Chief William H. Parker.
Heck, Jake, there are still members who think the service is 100% white Christian male, and some who don’t understand why racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic comments get them in trouble. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/03aadba0b56d4939b8bd0a8d85c74a90a84250d031117e8454174d0d5eaebf87.jpg
They might try NOT recruiting the skinheads and klansmen, though…