The officers who paid tribute to the criminal George Floyd during a BLM protest were dismissed this week
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has fired the agents who knelt during a Black Lives Matter protest in 2020 that took place in Washington D.C. in honor of the African American George Floyd.
Two sources confirmed to the Associated Press (AP) that the number of agents dismissed was approximately 20. In a statement issued on Friday, the FBI Agents Association confirmed that several of its members had been fired, calling the decision "illegal."
"As Director Patel has repeatedly stated, no one is above the law. But instead of providing these agents with fair treatment and due process, Patel chose to violate the law again by ignoring these agents' constitutional and legal rights, instead of following the required process," was the complaint presented by this union.
The agents shown in the photographs paying homage to the Black Lives Matter members had already been reassigned in April. According to CNN, the agency's employees tried to justify their actions by explaining that they feared being confronted by the protesters if they did not kneel.
"FBI agents are generally not trained for crowd control, and deploying them to face protesters caused fears of a possible deadly confrontation," said the agency's top leadership at the time.
These dismissals follow the directive set by President Donald Trump, who is working to eliminate "woke" practices and any kind of politicization within the country's intelligence community.
This week, it was revealed that the FBI maintained a presence of 274 undercover agents in the United States Capitol when the protests of January 6, 2021 broke out, a fact that reinforces the theory that the FBI itself caused the riots that day.
