Assistant chief of police, Anita Najiy, created a bone of contention between the Miami Police Department and the Fraternal Order of Police President, Javier Ortiz, after she refused to hold her hand over her heart for the Pledge of Allegiance during a recent promotional ceremony.
Ortiz became livid in seeing Najiy refuse to honor the Pledge, stating that she failed to exhibit courtesy and etiquette that “must be exercised when wearing a law enforcement uniform.”
“If you’re not pledging allegiance to the United States, my question is what country are you pledging allegiance to?” Ortiz asks. “Anyone who isn’t offended by that is not American, because when you become a U.S. citizen, you pledge allegiance to the US.”
Ortiz also states that Najiy’s disrepect comes from her Muslim belief, but that normal “protections” or exemptions generally given in the name of religious freedom and speech doesn´t apply to those in police uniform because “you’re supposed to be neutral.”
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Fire her! No place on a police force in the U.S.
He needs to go .
Fire her immediately.
If she can’t pledge allegiance to the flag of the country that she is living in working and how do you expect her to have allegiance to uphold the law of where she has just been given a job
Oh I forgot fire her
Then she should not have the privilege of the job.
Then fire ASAP
She will not swear because she doesn’t plan on upholding the office she has….
Ridicules
Should be fired imediatelly