Obama lynch image gets fireman fired

GALVESTON - A captain in the La Marque Fire Department has been fired for offenses that included posting an image on Facebook of President Barack Obama with a noose around his neck, according to a memo released by the department.

Capt. Alfred Decker, 46, also ordered the demolition of a house damaged by fire without allowing the owner to retrieve his valuables, according to a Feb. 5 memo from Fire Chief Gerald Grimm that outlined the reasons for his firing.

Grimm said Decker's combined actions showed incompetence, lack of good moral character, prejudice and discourtesy, according to the memo.

It called the post on his Facebook page that depicted Obama with a noose around his neck and the caption, "the making of a national holiday" as showing "inherent and indisputable connotation and underpinnings of a deliberate and willful action taken by Captain Decker to demonstrate apparent hatred, racism and prejudice toward African Americans and to create an offensive affront to the president of the United States."

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Cross-posted in the Texas Group.