FedEx employee fired, NJ corrections officer suspended over video mocking George Floyd

FRANKLIN TOWNSHIP, N.J. — A FedEx employee was fired and a New Jersey corrections officer was suspended for their alleged roles in the creation of a "hateful and disappointing” video mocking the death of George Floyd.

In a statement, FedEx said it does “not tolerate the kind of appalling and offensive behavior depicted in this video." the Courier-Post of Cherry Hill reported.

FedEx announced the employee’s contract termination late Tuesday, the newspaper reported.

“There is absolutely no place for racism or unequal treatment anywhere, and we must unequivocally speak out and reject it when we see it,” FedEx said in a statement.

The New Jersey Department of Corrections posted on its Facebook page that an “individual has been suspended from their post and banned from NJDOC facilities pending a thorough and expedited investigation.”

The cellphone video was taken during a Black Lives Matter rally Monday in Gloucester County, WPVI reported.

In the video, one of the men was shown kneeling on another man who was lying down, in a pose similar to the one former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin used on Floyd on May 25 in Minneapolis, the television station reported. Chauvin has been charged with second-degree murder.

“This is what happens,” the man says in the video, as other men stood in front of trucks with banners supporting President Donald Trump and a sign saying, “All Lives Matter.”

“Comply with the cops,” the man said.

“The behavior depicted in the video, which involved a FedEx employee, is appalling and offensive,” FedEx said in a statement. “The employee in question was immediately removed from all FedEx work duties while our investigation is concluded and all internal procedures are followed. FedEx holds its team members to a high standard of personal conduct, and we do not tolerate the kind of appalling and offensive behavior depicted in this video. The individual involved is no longer employed by FedEx. We stand with those who support justice and equality.”

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy also condemned the video.

“Mocking George Floyd’s murder in effort to belittle the calls for justice from our Black and Brown communities is repugnant,” Murphy tweeted. “I condemn this behavior in the strongest terms possible.”

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