Cop-turned-nurse fired for voting in 'Mississippi Justice' noose shirt
Associated Press
Published:
November 9, 2018
Updated:
November 9, 2018 12:45 PM EST
In this May 2, 2011, file photo, a voter casts a ballot in the 2011 federal election in Toronto.Chris Young / THE CANADIAN PRESS
OLIVE BRANCH, Miss. — A hospital in Tennessee has fired a worker who was photographed wearing a racist shirt while voting in Mississippi.
News outlets report that Regional One Health in Memphis says its investigation into the image shared online led to the man being fired. A picture of the man shows him at a polling place wearing a shirt that has a Confederate flag with a noose in the centre and the words “Mississippi Justice.”
The hospital’s statement didn’t identify the man, but he has been identified online as a registered nurse, Clayton John Hickey.
Hickey is a former Memphis police officer who resigned in 2010 when found with a 17-year-old girl and open containers of alcohol in his car. News outlets say attempts to contact him have been unsuccessful.
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