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Sheriff’s Deputy Fired for Posting Selfies from Jan 6 Protest Gets $400,000 Settlement
The Daily Fetched ^ | 9 May 2024 | Jason Walsh

Posted on 05/09/2024 8:46:53 AM PDT by Sam77

Bexar County Sheriff’s lieutenant, who was fired from her job after posting pictures from the Jan 6 Capitol protest, has secured a $395,000 legal settlement.

The county’s insurer will pay Roxanne Mathai the federal out-of-court settlement.

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TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: 20210106; bexarcounty; j6; j6settlement; jan6th; javiersalazar; roxannemathai; salazar; sanantonio; texas

1 posted on 05/09/2024 8:46:53 AM PDT by Sam77
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To: Sam77

The settlement should come from those responsible for the firing, not the insurance company or taxpayers.


2 posted on 05/09/2024 8:48:59 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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The prog illegal alien supporting Sheriff should have to pay this out of his pocket.


3 posted on 05/09/2024 9:30:09 AM PDT by ChuckHam
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To: Sam77

She’s “permitted “ to reapply for her position.

Nope. That should be her NEXT lawsuit. To be REINSTATED to the department...with all subsequent raises and promotions she would naturally have applied for during the lost time.


4 posted on 05/09/2024 10:48:53 AM PDT by moovova ("The NEXT ELECTION is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
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“I believe it — that the insurrection itself was a terrorist act, and she was there in support of it,” said Salazar during his deposition.”

That looks like a nothing-but-net defamation lawsuit to me.


5 posted on 05/09/2024 10:52:40 AM PDT by MeganC ("Russians are subhuman" - posted by Kazan 8 March 2024)
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To: Sam77

From the article:

“Mathai never went inside the Capitol building and was not formally accused of criminal wrongdoing by any law enforcement agency.”

That’s a pretty important little piece of information there.


6 posted on 05/09/2024 11:00:10 AM PDT by suthener ( )
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Texas Lieutenant Fired By Sheriff Who Campaigned for Biden After Attending Trump’s Jan. 6 Rally, Despite Never Entering Capitol
GP ^ | June 29, 2021 | Cassandra Fairbanks
Posted on 6/29/2021, 3:15:19 PM by White Lives Matter

A detention lieutenant was fired from the Bexar County Sheriff’s Office in Texas for attending the Trump rally in DC on January 6, even though she never entered the Capitol.

Bexar County Sheriff Javier Salazar, who fired Roxanne Mathai for attending the rally, campaigned for Joe Biden during the 2020 election.

Mathai had posted about being at the rally on social media, but never entered the building. She even specifically posted that she had no desire to enter the building and break the law.

Though she was simply exercising her First Amendment rights and attending a rally hosted by the then-President of the United States, Sheriff Salazar immediately began publicly condemning her....


7 posted on 05/09/2024 11:20:50 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: Sam77

Maybe she should run for his job now. She has more sense.


8 posted on 05/09/2024 11:23:00 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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Texas sheriff opens investigation into DeSantis’ migrant flight to Martha’s Vineyard (Bexar County Sheriff Javier Salazar, San Antonio, Texas)
Local10 ^ | 19 September 2022 | Glenna Milberg
Posted on 9/19/2022, 7:46:09 PM by CodeToad

MIAMI – A Texas sheriff has opened an investigation into the circumstances surrounding Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ decision to fly a group of migrants from San Antonio to Martha’s Vineyard, his agency tweeted Monday evening.

Javier Salazar, the sheriff of Bexar County, which includes San Antonio, held a news conference on the migrant flight Monday. Salazar is a Democrat, while DeSantis is a Republican....


9 posted on 05/09/2024 11:28:13 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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