The Queens Chronicle has a front-page article on the city on the ongoing FDNY lawsuit, in which they objectively give both sides of the story, including quotes from both Capt. Paul Washington of the Vulcan Society and Deputy Chief Paul Mannix of Merit Matters.
It’s an excellent article, which includes this; “Mannix believes Garaufis should be removed. He also invites any member of the FDNY who has a substantiated claim of racism to come to his group for help. “Contact Merit Matters, and we will stand up for you,” Mannix said.
Another one of the group’s members, Andy Rasavongseuk, who is of Laotian descent and works with Squad 270, a special firefighting unit in Richmond Hill, also agrees that Garaufis should get booted from the case.
“I don’t know where he lost his impartiality or how, but he needs to be removed,” Rasavongseuk said. “The talk around the firehouse is that we want people to get the job because they earned it, not because they pulled some idiot off the street.”
It’s a great article and well worth reading; http://www.qchron.com/news/queenswide/city-accuses-bias-case-judge-of-bias/article_76f7bdd3-269e-5366-9749-61ad20b4883c.html
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