Remember all those corrections academy trainees that were seen in a joke photo showing them doing a Nazi salute? Well, West Virginia’s governor just officially fired all of them.
West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice on Monday approved the termination of dozens of Corrections Academy trainees seen in a photograph appearing to give a Nazi salute.
The photograph, released publicly earlier this month by the West Virginia Department of Military Affairs and Public Safety, showed more than 30 trainees from Basic Training Class 18 with their arms raised in a salute. The caption “Hail Byrd!” – a reference to the trainees’ instructor – is visible above the group.
If these people murdered an inmate, they would have received a lesser punishment.
This idea that people’s lives need to be ruined because they make a joke is insane and needs to end. They should all sue for wrongful termination.
