Firefighter sent on leave to allegedly use the COVID vaccine mandate as toilet paper

A Los Angeles firefighter was put on leave after being charged earlier this month with using a vaccination claim as a temporary piece of toilet paper. according to Los Angeles Times.

The alleged incident was reported by the stentorians in Los Angeles City in a letter addressed to the board of fire commissioners and city officials in Los Angeles, the newspaper reported.

The Stentorians, a group that said on its website it represents more than 300 black firefighters and paramedics in the area, alleged in the letter that the firefighter rubbed a piece of paper informing him of the city’s vaccine requirements against his buttocks and dropped the paper to the ground. Fecal matter was left on the paper as a result, the stentorians claimed, according to Times.

A Los Angeles firefighter has been accused of using a vaccination mandate announcement as a temporary piece of toilet paper, local media reported this week. Above, a firefighter’s paramedics are preparing a Moderna COVID-19 vaccination dose at a Los Angeles Fire Department on January 29 in Los Angeles, California.
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The firefighter’s name was not publicly reported, but the person was at Pacific Palisades’ Fire Station 69 with a Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD) captain and at least one other firefighter at the time of the alleged incident in mid-November, the newspaper reported. .

It told LAFD Times officials are investigating the allegations and have meanwhile put the firefighter on paid administrative leave.

“The department is aware of the seriousness of the allegations and took immediate action when we became aware of this incident,” LAFD spokeswoman Cheryl Getuiza told the newspaper. Times.

The Stentorians said in a statement shared with Times that they asked city officials and the board of fire commissioners “to take prompt and immediate action to deter any city employee from feeling justified and not encouraged, but empowered to behave in such an embarrassing and threatening manner.”

The chairman of the board of fire commissioners said they were “more than appalled” at the allegations and expressed support for “strong corrective actions” in a statement shared with Times.

Newsweek contacted LAFD for a comment.

Los Angeles City employees are required to be vaccinated against COVID-19 and have until Dec. 18 to do so. Mayor Eric Garcetti told reporters last month that city employees who do not meet the mid-December deadline to get their shots, or who have not received approval for a vaccine exemption at the time, “should be prepared to lose their job.”

It is estimated that 77 percent of all city employees in Los Angeles were vaccinated in mid-November, according to city data reviewed by Los Angeles-based news station KNBC. A union representing Los Angeles firefighters filed a lawsuit against the city over the vaccine claim earlier this month, and a similar lawsuit filed by a nonprofit organization representing Los Angeles County firefighters was also filed against the vaccine claim, according to the local station. KCAL- TV.