Associated Press
A Florida fire chief and arts manager have been removed from their jobs after a mural depicting black former fire department officials was replaced with one showing them with white faces.
The Palm Beach Post reports that City Manager Lori LaVerriere removed Matthew Petty, the city’s fire chief, and fired Debby Coles-Dobay, the city’s public arts manager. LaVerriere said in a statement Saturday she would not tolerate disrespect to any part of the community.
The mural, which the city unveiled this month, erased the image of Latosha Clemons, who was the city’s first and only black female firefighter and deputy chief. Also erased on the mural was the face of Glenn Joseph, the city’s former fire chief. He was the first black firefighter in Boca Raton’s department.
Officials removed the public art project a day after it was unveiled.
3 comments
Sam
June 7, 2020 at 4:11 pm
This is about the dumbest thing I’ve read in a while, and that’s saying something.
Sonja Fitch
June 7, 2020 at 4:29 pm
Wtf. White privileged gone stupid!
Fed Up
June 9, 2020 at 8:51 am
Flori-duh. The redneck racist state.
It was the right thing to do to fire them. Thank you for nor putting up with this kind of crap.
She’s not an artist, she’s a whitewash racist. How could you think this was ok to do!? Shame on them both.
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