14 DAY TRIAL // This Wednesday, a detective in Louisiana was fired after a photo showing him giving the Nazi salute a Ku Klux Klan rally surfaced and reached his superiors.
The detective, Raymond Mott of Lake Arthur, was first asked to resign on his own accord. When he refused on the grounds that he did nothing wrong when attending the rally, the Town Council met and unanimously voted that he should be dismissed from his post.
It is understood that all the cases that he worked on while serving as a detective in the town of Lake Arthur in Louisiana are now being reviewed.
Raymond Mott is convinced of his innocence
The Ku Klux Klan rally where detective Raymond Mott was photographed giving the Nazi salute together with another man dressed in the familiar white hood was organized in last year's August in North Carolina.
It was a rally protesting illegal immigration and so Raymond Mott insists that he cannot be fired for attending it. The fact that the photo shows him wearing a Klan symbol on his shirt is of little importance.
DM tells us that, when first confronted by his colleagues and his superiors, the detective lied and said that the reason he added the rally was because he was working undercover for the FBI. He eventually admitted that he was there because he wanted to.
As for his reasons, Raymond Mott says that he attended the rally simply because he wanted to take a stand against illegal immigration. Surely he cannot be fired over something as banal as this?
“The picture speaks for itself. I'm standing at a rally against illegal immigration. There's not much to be said about the picture. I've never denied it was me,” he said in an interview.
The detective is determined to get his job back
Raymond Mott claims that the Lake Arthur Town Council had no business firing him just because, over a year ago, he happened to attend a Ku Klux Klan rally organized to protest illegal immigration.
Hence, he plans to fight the decision in court. He's spoken to a lawyer and says that, soon enough, he will file a lawsuit against the people who ordered that he be dismissed.
