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A Kansas City firefighter charged after an incident where he spat on a 3-year-old child and called him the n-word is back at work this week.
Terrence Jeremy Skeen, 42, was reinstated at the Kansas City Fire Department ahead of his trial next month after his attorneys argued he was suspended incorrectly, the Kansas City Star reported. Skeen faces battery, assault, and disorderly conduct charges stemming from a Feb. 26 altercation at a local Hooters.
The firefighter is accused of threatening to shoot a Black customer, calling him a racial slur and then spitting on his 3-year-old grandson inside the restaurant. The victim, Raymond L. Harris, stayed behind after the Hooters manager called the police to report Harris and his family, not Skeen. Harris family was ultimately asked to leave the restaurant, despite having done nothing wrong, according to the newspaper.
Harris said he was still inside with his grandson when the child briefly wandered away. Moments later, another patron said she saw Skeen spit on the child.
You need to get that fing girl and take her back to the other side where you came from, Skeen shouted at the man from across the bar.
After correcting him on the tots gender, Harris said he asked Skeen if he had spit on his grandchild.
Fk you, you (n-word), Skeen allegedly replied. I will spit on you. Fk you! I will shoot you!
http://atlantablackstar.com/2018/04/18/kansas-firefighter-reinstated-hurling-racial-slurs-spitting-3-year-old-hooters/

JustAnotherGen
(34,371 posts)This happened in FEBRUARY - on the 26th of this year. This could NEVER be relevant!
Okay - that aside (because I know you will get the joke) -
Again- I'm not gonna be nice, reach across the aisle, give any fucking credibility to an asswipe monster deplorable who spits at a child and calls them a n*gger.
He'll get away with it. These thugs always do.
And I hope he responds to an out of control fire real soon. Someone with that kind of job should be 'nicer'.
sdfernando
(5,542 posts)and what about the manager calling the cops on the victim? Hooters should be taken to task on this just like Starbucks!
JustAnotherGen
(34,371 posts)And I'm 'working an idea' that will make it easier for black folks to say - don't go there - go here instead.
And there will be nothing that the owners of these establishments can do about it.
You know - this concept has been done before.
kimbutgar
(24,180 posts)As on fire. And attacking a small child should be a firing offense. That is cruel and evil.
GreenPartyVoter
(73,192 posts)still_one
(97,455 posts)oasis
(51,946 posts)Blecht
(3,805 posts)Very fine.
Hassin Bin Sober
(26,882 posts)I certainly hope so.
It sounds like this was a reversal of a suspension. Hopefully the suspension was pending a trial and subject to firing.