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TexasTowelie

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Sun Sep 20, 2020, 06:53 AM Sep 2020

Custodian at North Providence Police Department fired for racist Facebook message

A North Providence town employee has been fired after sending a racist message on Facebook, the mayor said.

Darren Barnes, who worked as a custodian for the town at the Police Department, was fired Friday morning, Mayor Charles Lombardi confirmed.

“I don’t tolerate that nonsense,” Lombardi said.

According to a report in GoLocalProv, a screenshot circulated on social media of a Facebook message in which Barnes allegedly used the N-word multiple times. Barnes did not respond to messages from The Journal left by telephone and through Facebook.

Lombardi said Barnes admitted sending the message containing racial slurs and “he knew he did wrong.” Lombardi said he learned of the incident Thursday night and went in at 7 a.m. to fire him first thing.

Read more: https://www.providencejournal.com/news/20200918/custodian-at-north-providence-police-department-fired-for-racist-facebook-message

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Custodian at North Providence Police Department fired for racist Facebook message (Original Post) TexasTowelie Sep 2020 OP
Good Sherman A1 Sep 2020 #1
He seems nice... CurtEastPoint Sep 2020 #2
Trump has empowered these scumbaga XanaDUer2 Sep 2020 #3

XanaDUer2

(10,327 posts)
3. Trump has empowered these scumbaga
Sun Sep 20, 2020, 11:49 AM
Sep 2020

Good to see he'll be fired, ACTIONS have CONSEQUENCES..and it's Trump slandering the military, so wtf?

They're hopeless. Gone. Hope it was worth it

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