BETTER DEAD THAN RUDE: “I Was Sacked From Police for Questioning Islam.”
A Christian police support officer was sacked after he asked questions about Islam in a diversity training session. The Telegraph has the story.
Luke Salmons lost his job as a police community support officer (PCSO) with the North Yorkshire force and was barred from policing after a conversation about Gaza with a Muslim officer.
He later won an appeal against his dismissal but has never received an apology from the force where he said a “culture of fear” existed among officers who were terrified of being fired for saying the wrong thing.
Salmons, 46, told the Telegraph that a training day on race, religion and culture turned into an “indoctrination” session as trainers chanted “Islam is a religion of peace” and discussed white privilege.
Having been encouraged to ask questions in what staff were told was a safe space, he asked a Muslim officer about his views on terrorist attacks by Islamist groups including Hamas. The officer happily discussed the issue with him and invited him to chat further over coffee after the session.
But within two days he had been suspended for gross misconduct by an inspector who told him: “I don’t like your beliefs.”
Salmons told the Telegraph: “I loved my job and I was good at it. I was well respected as a PCSO and my colleagues said they loved working with me and couldn’t understand what was happening.
“But an overzealous inspector took against me and that was the end of my career, even though I had done nothing wrong.”
On Thursday, the Telegraph reported how police officers in the force that failed Henry Nowak felt “controlled and pressured” during diversity training.
Related: JD Vance goes out on a limb: Vance blames Nowak murder on ‘migrant invasion.’
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