TX sheriff's lieutenant who called the 1/6 riot one of the best days of her life has been fired
An arbitrator upheld the Bexar County Sheriff's decision to fire Lt. Roxanne Mathai.
Mathai posted photos to Facebook that showed her outside the Capitol on January 6. She has not been charged.
Bexar County Sheriff's Office lieutenant Lt. Roxanne Mathai, 47, was placed on administrative leave in January after she posted multiple photos to Facebook near the US Capitol on January 6, KSAT reported.
Sheriff Javier Salazar officially fired Mathai in June, but she appealed his decision, according to KSAT. When the case was brought before an arbitrator, she argued that she was present for a historic event and was wrongfully terminated.
Since Mathai said she didn't enter the Capitol, she also argued that she was not involved in the siege, local CBS affiliate KENS5 reported.
Salazar called her defense "ridiculous" in an interview with KSAT on Monday.
"It's not like you're standing there for the signing of the Declaration of Independence. That's a historic event," Salazar said. "You're there when fellow Americans lost their lives. That's nothing to be proud of."
The arbitrator ultimately sided with Salazar and upheld Mathai's firing from her post, according to KSAT.
"Not gonna lie.....aside from my kids, this was, indeed, the best day of my life. And it's not over yet," Mathai wrote in a separate Facebook post, according to news reports.
Mathai told KENS in June that she does not regret going to the Capitol that day, but regrets "the events that happened — the events that I had no participation in — I do regret that those things happened."
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