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🗓️ 31 December 2022
⏱️ 32 minutes
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0:00.0 | There is a city in Washington, Washington State, that, well, there was a case, and I'll tell you what happened. |
0:09.9 | There's an assistant police chief who displayed a Nazi symbol on his office door and joked about the Holocaust. |
0:18.2 | His name is Derek Camerzel, and initially, he was disciplined with two weeks of |
0:24.1 | administrative leave, which is supposed to come without pay for doing it. He's 27 years, |
0:32.1 | a veteran of the force. And he was nailed, nailed, no pay for two weeks. |
0:40.3 | He used his vacation time, which allowed him to receive the pay anyway. |
0:45.8 | So he got the pay, but had to use his vacation time. |
0:49.2 | So what he did is placed a sign and insignia on his door that said SS Obergrupin |
0:59.7 | Fuhr, which is a military insignia, insignia used in the Third Reich in Germany, Nazi Germany, |
1:07.6 | and he put it on his office door. And it stayed there for two weeks until it was |
1:14.5 | reported to a superior who took it down. And he's German, by the way, insisted he didn't know the |
1:21.6 | symbol was associated with Nazi Germany. That is a defense, please. Who we kidding? And that it appeared on the TV show, |
1:29.8 | The Man in the High Castle, which is an interesting show. And it's about the Nazis winning World |
1:34.1 | War II and coming in the United States and creating a German Nazi government. And so what ended up |
1:42.3 | happening is he sued them. |
1:45.3 | He sued the city and argued that it was an unfair disciplinary move by the city. |
1:54.4 | And he argued, and he was in the middle of investigation at the time. |
1:59.7 | And he argued if the city fired him, |
2:02.2 | he would have won his job back through arbitration, and pay would have been reinstated, |
2:09.3 | per his lawsuit. He was fired for it, by the way, because he started complaining about what they were doing, |
2:20.8 | and he sued. |
2:22.9 | And guess what the city did? |
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