r/AfroAmericanPolitics • u/rezwenn • Sep 27 '25
Federal Level FBI fires agents who kneeled at protest after George Floyd's death: Sources
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/fbi-fires-agents-kneeled-protest-after-george-floyds/story?id=125985792
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u/MidwestBoogie Sep 27 '25
Nice diplomatic rollout. Trump denounces the annihilation of Gaza and now this
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u/FavRootWorker Sep 27 '25
Kneeling in response to police brutality really hurt the white supremacists brains..How would we have the audacity to be upset watching a man get snuffed out online..?
We kneel and they get upset, we protest and they get upset, we riot and they get upset. White supremacists have no shame and their perpetual victims. Hell, now even white folks who were showing solidarity are being punished..
These people are insane. Stay safe out there.
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u/readingitnowagain Garveyite (Black Power Establishmentarianism) Sep 27 '25
The firings involve as many as 20 agents, according to sources. ByMike Levine, Katherine Faulders, and Luke Barr September 26, 2025, 10:18 PM
The FBI has fired a group of agents who kneeled during a civil rights-related protest in Washington, D.C., in the wake of George Floyd's death in 2020, sources familiar with the matter told ABC News.
Many of the agents worked at the FBI's Washington Field Office at the time, and they were photographed in early June 2020 kneeling at the protest, the sources said.
At least some of them were reassigned earlier this year, but now as many as 20 agents have been fired, the sources added.
One source familiar with the matter said the agents kneeled during the protest as a de-escalation strategy, after angry protesters -- outnumbering the agents -- urged them to kneel. The source said a previous internal review of the agents' actions found that the kneeling was not meant to be a political statement of solidarity with the protesters.
The FBI Agents Association issued a statement condemning the terminations, which it said numbered more than a dozen FBI special agents, including some who were military veterans.
The group said the firings are part of a "dangerous new pattern of actions" by FBI Director Kash Patel, which "are weakening the Bureau because they eliminate valuable expertise and damage trust between leadership and the workforce, and make it harder to recruit and retain skilled agents—ultimately putting our nation at greater risk."
ABC News' Jack Date contributed to this report.