A woman in US got fired from her job for showing middle finger to President Donald Trump.
Going into details, 50-year-old Juli Briskman, a mother of two, was cycling in Virginia last month when Trump’s motorcade passed by her. The President was going to Virginia golf club. Briskman, who claimed to have got vexed of Trump’s policies, then raised her middle finger at his motorcade. She claimed to have done it a number of times earlier.
But this time, she was photographed by a journalist who was traveling with the presidential motorcade, and the picture quickly spread across social media. Soon, Briskman, who had been working as a marketing specialist for a Virginia-based federal contractor, got fired from the job.
As news of her firing spread, many netizens asked why she was penalized for expressing free speech on her own time, under the first amendment to the US constitution.
The woman said she had no regrets about losing the job, and said, she was happy to have become an image of protest against Trump.