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ne of the arguments from conservatives on why there isn’t more diversity in police departments is that Black men and women don’t apply to be officers—which we all know is lie. What we also know is that Black police officers face more discrimination within  their departments, unless you are David E. Clarke. Now, according to a report from NJ.com, a Black New Jersey trooper was wrongfully fired because of a post on social media. And he is calling his dismissal out as racism.

Nyron Harris has been a New Jersey state police officer since 2013. In effort to support his cousin’s clothing company, which includes “Black Excellence” shirts, he posted an image of Joanne Chesimard on a T-shirt. Chesimard is now known as Assata Shakur, who was  convicted for the murder of a trooper in 1973.

Shakur was convicted by an all-white jury and has always maintained her innocence. When she was found guilty, she famously said at her trial, “You abuse the law. I know it (the trial) was racist. I knew the judge was unfair. You have convicted a woman who had her hands in the air, who is innocent.” She escaped from prison in 1979, fleeing to Cuba where she was granted political asylum.

Once Harris’ fellow officers saw his social media post with Shakur’s image, he was fired. He said the Instagram post was an “honest mistake.” NJ.com reports, “The trooper’s attorney, George Daggett, claims Harris did not know it was Chesimard on the shirt, which contained a grid of nine portraits of prominent Black women with the words “Black Excellence” but did not identify them by name.”

Harris has filed a lawsuit, arguing that white police officers have been “accused of far worse behavior” and were not fired. He also claims they have been building a case against him for months, saying, “Superiors drummed up minor infractions to justify turning him away from the statewide force when he was up for re-enlistment last summer.”

SOURCE: NJ.com

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Black Police Officer Fired Because Of An Instagram Post About Assata Shakur  was originally published on newsone.com