Ex-Bexar jail lieutenant sues, claiming she was wrongly fired over her presence at U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6
Roxanne Mathai, a former Bexar County Sheriff's Office jail lieutenant who was fired after posting images to social media of herself among an angry mob that overran the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, has sued the department and Sheriff Javier Salazar.A former Bexar County Sheriff's Office jail lieutenant who was fired after posting images to social media of herself among an angry mob that overran the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, has sued the department and Sheriff Javier Salazar.
The day after the attack on the Capitol, Salazar said if she was found to have participated in the riot, he wanted her to “never set foot in again.” The sheriff, a Democrat, said his office would launch an investigation, and that his decision would be based on her conduct, not on her support of Trump.
“This is a lawsuit that fights back against political cancel culture, where employees are punished for their political beliefs,” said Mathai’s lawyer, Mark Anthony Sánchez. “That is not the America I want to see.”
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