Police Officer Fired for Donating to Rittenhouse's Defense Demands Job Back

 

Lieutenant William Kelly was fired from the Norfolk Police Department after he made an anonymous donation of $25 to Kyle Rittenhouse's legal defense funds in April 2021. Now that Rittenhouse was found innocent of all charges, Kelly is demanding his job back.

As he should.

The 19-year police veteran was only ten months away from his pension vesting when he was fired.

DailyMail reports:

Everything I’m saying is just my personal opinion. I’ve been a homicide detective, a violent crimes investigator for years. I have a background. I watched the video of the shooting. I’d seen the video of the journalists of Mr. Rittenhouse before the shooting and the protesters before the shooting and I thought it painted a pretty clear picture that Mr. Rittenhouse had a very strong claim for self-defense.

Kelly saw that GoFundMe took down the fundraiser for Rittenhouse's defense but noticed that there was another page set up on the Give Send Go platform to help with legal defense. That is when he decided to send the anonymous donation with a note that read, “God Bless. Thank you for your courage. Keep your head up. You’ve done nothing wrong. Every rank-and-file police officer supports you.”

“I didn’t want my city or police department to be associated with it, so I chose to donate anonymously,” he explained.

However, hackers obtained Kelly's information from the donation and sent it to The Guardian, who then ran a story listing officers and officials who donated to Rittenhouse.

That resulted in the department firing him, citing "erosion of the public's trust in the police."

“It wasn’t people local, it was people from all around the country who read an article and sent a nasty tweet. In the absence of that outcry, there would not have been any kind of disciplinary action against me, I’m confident,” Kelly said. “This is America. You can agree with your neighbors and other people in your community and you can disagree with them. Just because someone has a different opinion than you, it doesn’t mean you should destroy their lives, take their job away."

What organizations he donates to on his own time with his own money should be a private thing. In no way was it fair for him to be fired from his job for that.

Personally, I think he should sue for backpay.

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