TN Hospital Fires Worker Who Wore Racist Shirt While Voting In Mississippi

(Source: Twitter/@smokeydaQue1212)
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OLIVE BRANCH, Miss. (AP) — A hospital in Tennessee has fired a worker who was photographed wearing a racist shirt while voting in Mississippi.

News outlets report that Regional One Health in Memphis says its investigation into the image shared online led to the man being fired. A picture of the man shows him at a polling place wearing a shirt that has a Confederate flag with a noose in the center and the words “Mississippi Justice.”

The hospital’s statement didn’t identify the man, but he has been identified online as a registered nurse, Clayton John Hickey.

Hickey is a former Memphis police officer who resigned in 2010 when found with a 17-year-old girl and open containers of alcohol in his car. News outlets say attempts to contact him have been unsuccessful.

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  1. Hickey is a former Memphis police officer who resigned in 2010 when
    found with a 17-year-old girl and open containers of alcohol in his car.

    Perfect.

  2. Mississippi Justice…meet Poetic Justice.

    ETA : And to quote Eddie Murphy from “48 Hours” :

    “You’re too fuckin’ stupid to have a job”

  3. Yeah really, holy shit on so many levels!

  4. Good lord. This asshole is a registered nurse?

  5. Yet another idiot woke up and decided to be racist only to find himself jobless.

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