Court upholds Giuliani firings over racist New York parade float
By DAVID B. CARUSO
Associated Press Writer
NEW YORK (AP) — The city was within its rights to fire a police officer and two firefighters who rode a parade float featuring mocking stereotypes of blacks, a federal appeals panel said Thursday.
The ruling by the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a lower-court’s decision that the men were engaging in free speech and shouldn’t have been let go.
“The First Amendment does not require a government employer to sit idly by while its employees insult those they are hired to serve and protect,” 2nd Circuit Judge Guido Calabresi wrote in the panel’s opinion.
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