FOX NEWS: In a stunning crackdown, the FDNY has demanded that all personal decorations, including flags and pictures of colleagues killed on Sept. 11, 2001, be removed from lockers, WCBSTV reported.
The controversy began two weeks ago when a sexually explicit slogan was reported at Engine 230 in Brooklyn. In response, FDNY Commissioner Nicholas Scoppetta banned all decorations, including American flags, "Support Our Troops" stickers, pictures of family and Mass cards.
Stephen Cassidy, the president of the Uniformed Firefighters Association, says the department has gone too far.
"We're tired of being treated like children," he told WCBS. "It will not continue. If we have to take legal action we will."
The union has retained civil rights attorney Ron Kuby to fight the regulation. Kuby once famously defended associates of the Gambino Crime Family and once handled a controversial plea deal for alleged mobster John Gotti Jr.
But the FDNY is sticking to its guns.
"No city agency should permit the work place to display inappropriate stuff," said Mylan Denerstein, the FDNY's deputy commissioner for legal affairs.
The union says it plans to give every firefighter a flag decal to display on their lockers.
I don't know what was put up in E230 but this is the most un-american thing I have heard yet today. Any opinions on this.
J
The controversy began two weeks ago when a sexually explicit slogan was reported at Engine 230 in Brooklyn. In response, FDNY Commissioner Nicholas Scoppetta banned all decorations, including American flags, "Support Our Troops" stickers, pictures of family and Mass cards.
Stephen Cassidy, the president of the Uniformed Firefighters Association, says the department has gone too far.
"We're tired of being treated like children," he told WCBS. "It will not continue. If we have to take legal action we will."
The union has retained civil rights attorney Ron Kuby to fight the regulation. Kuby once famously defended associates of the Gambino Crime Family and once handled a controversial plea deal for alleged mobster John Gotti Jr.
But the FDNY is sticking to its guns.
"No city agency should permit the work place to display inappropriate stuff," said Mylan Denerstein, the FDNY's deputy commissioner for legal affairs.
The union says it plans to give every firefighter a flag decal to display on their lockers.
I don't know what was put up in E230 but this is the most un-american thing I have heard yet today. Any opinions on this.
J
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