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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THROW HIM OUT
How can one serve in an office to which he/she is not committed? If you can’t take the pledge don’t take the office.
If you or I would go to their country, would we be allowed this same opportunity? Why are the American people so quick, and willing to put a non American in this position?
FIRE HIM
Fire its butt !
FIRE HIM. THIS IS AMERICA
Kick her out
FIRE HIM …..We do not need people who come here for the freedoms we enjoy and then want to dishonor the Death of thousand who died for the very freedoms he came here for.
Fire his booty.
Fire him?