The son of an Orange County, Fla., assistant fire chief was been suspended from the fire department for a mere 12 hours without pay after coming clean on the fact that he painted a big ol’ Confederate battle flag on his work ax, then somehow left it at the black man’s house that was engulfed in flames.
The Confederate battle flag’s existence came out as part of an investigation by the county fire chief into “a culture of entitlement at his busiest fire station,” according to Orlando’s WFTV.
The report claims a black man who lived at the home in question was already going crazy about the fire at his home, so when a fire department lieutenant saw the ax on the ground, he told a supervisor about it and took it away before the homeowner saw it.
The investigation didn’t take long before the son of assistant fire chief, Jeff Holton, admitted he had painted the flag on the ax.
According to the report, Holton told investigators he did it to “touch up” the ax, and said to him it signified his small-town roots and core values of family and hard work.
The report did not include how the ax got from Station 42 to the black man’s home.
Of course, as is the trend these days, Holton denied that he is a racist or that he wanted to offend anyone.
Yeah, right.
