Washington – Three people familiar with the issue said on Friday that the FBI launched customers who were photographed in bowing during the protest of ethnic justice in Washington, after the death of George Floyd in 2020 by Minneapolis police officers.
People who insisted on not disclosing his identity to discuss employee issues with Associated Press said that the office last spring had reassured the agents, but he had launched them since then.
The number of FBI employees that were ended were not immediately clear, but two people said it was about 20 years old.
The photographs of the continuation showed a group of agents who take a knee in a clear solidarity during one of the demonstrations that followed the killing of Floyd in May 2020, a death that led to a national account on the police and racial injustice and sparked widespread anger after millions of people saw a video of arrest.
The demonstrators are running along Pennsylvania Street while protesting the death of George Floyd, May 29, 2020, in Washington.
(AP Photo/EVAN VCCI, File)
A spokesman for the FBI refused to comment on Friday.
The shootings come amid the cleansing of wider employees in the office, as director Cash Patel works to reshape the first federal law enforcement agency in the country.
It was known that five agents and executives of the higher level were expelled last month in a wave of firefighters, who are current and previous officials that he contributed to the low morale.
One of them, Steve Jensen, overseeing investigations on January 6, 2021, helped the riots in the Capitol in the United States. In his capacity, Brian Drichol, in his capacity as the FBI director in the early days of the Trump administration and resisted the demands of the Ministry of Justice to provide the names of the agents who were achieved on January 6.
A third, a third, Chris Mayer, was common to social media to investigate the investigation of President Donald Trump’s documents classified as Mar Lago in Palm Beach, Florida ,. Fourth, Walter Giardina participated in high -level investigations such as Trump’s adviser Peter Navarro.
A lawsuit submitted by Ginsen, Drescol and another supervisor of the FBI, Spencer Evans, claimed that Patel had informed that he understood that it was “likely to be” illegal “from firefighting agents based on the issues they worked in, but was unable to stop him because the White House and the Ministry of Justice were determined to remove all agents who investigated Trump.
Patel denied at the Congress hearing last week to take orders from the White House who was shooting and said that anyone who was separated failed to meet the standards of the FBI.
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