FBI Fired 20 Agents Who Knelt During 2020 George Floyd Protests

WASHINGTON, DC- The Associated Press (AP) reports that approximately 20 FBI agents who took a knee during the 2020 George Floyd protests have been fired, citing three people “familiar” with the matter. 

The agents were initially reassigned last spring, however, they have since been fired, according to the three individuals who spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity. 

In photographs showing the protest, a group of FBI agents wearing garments or ballistic vests, identifying them as such, were shown kneeling in deference to the career criminal and drug addict, who became a martyr for the racial grievance industry.

After the picture went viral, many agents within the agency became angry, however, some believed it to be a “de-escalation tactic.” 

In a Friday statement, the FBI Agents Association confirmed over a dozen agents had been terminated, including some military veterans who carried additional statutory protections.

The association called the move unlawful and called on Congress to investigate. They also insinuated it was indicative of FBI Director Kash Patel’s disregard for the legal rights of FBI employees. 

“As Director Patel has repeatedly stated, nobody is above the law,” the association said in a statement. “But rather than providing these agents with fair treatment and due process, Patel chose to again violate the law by ignoring these agents’ constitutional and legal rights instead of following the requisite process.” 

Fox News Digital, citing The Washington Post, reported that the director’s allies have accused the kneeling incident of being evidence of political bias within the agency’s ranks. 

Some agents involved in the kneeling, however, say they were caught between a rock and a hard place. 

“This wasn’t politics–it was survival,” one former agent told Reuters. 

The firings came as Patel is seeking to purge the agency of Democrat party loyalists and those who participated in operations such as “Crossfire Hurricane,” the bogus FBI probe into alleged Russia collusion involving the Trump campaign in the 2016 presidential election. 

Fox News Digital reported that five agents and top-level executives within the FBI were fired last month, among a number of terminations. 

One of those agents, Steve Jensen, helped oversee investigations into the January 6 US Capitol siege, which rounded up hundreds of relatively innocent citizens who merely entered the Capitol on that date, many invited in by Capitol Police. 

Brian Driscoll, who served as acting FBI director at the beginning of President Trump’s second term, was also fired. Driscoll famously resisted Justice Department demands to provide the names of agents who investigated the January 6 events. 

A third agent, Chris Meyer, was incorrectly reported on social media to have participated in the so-called “classified documents” investigation into the president’s alleged retention of such documents at Mar-a-Lago. A fourth, Walter Giardina, participated in the bogus investigation into Trump adviser Peter Navarro. 

Driscoll and another dismissed FBI supervisor, Spencer Evans, filed a lawsuit and alleged that Patel said he understood it was “likely illegal” to fire agents based on cases they worked, however, he couldn’t stop it because the White House and the DOJ were determined to terminate anyone who investigated President Trump, the AP reported. 

During congressional testimony earlier this month, Patel testified that he was not taking orders from the White House on whom to fire, and said anyone fired failed to meet the agency’s standards.