West Virginia governor fires corrections officers over Nazi salute
Posted on AllSides December 31st, 2019
From The Right
All 34 cadets from the West Virginia Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation who posed in a class photo raising their hands in a Nazi salute will reportedly be fired, the state’s governor announced Monday.
Gov. Jim Justice’s decision followed a state probe that found the class had been giving Nazi salutes since early on in their five-week training, according to a summary of the probe obtained by the Charleston Gazette-Mail.
However, the report also said there was no racist intent from the cadets because they did not fully grasp the...