A group of 12 FBI employees who were fired earlier this year for taking a knee during a George Floyd protest in 2020 sued the Trump administration on Monday to get their jobs back.
The special agents compared their actions to the early days of the American Revolution and claim they knelt to deescalate the volatile situation, not to make a political statement.
“Plaintiffs are the real patriots President Washington envisions,” the employees, who filed the lawsuit anonymously, claimed.
Nationwide demonstrations and riots broke out in response to Floyd’s death during an encounter with Minneapolis police in May 2020. The riots also empowered the Black Lives Matter movement, which prompted supporters to take a knee as a gesture against perceived racial injustices….