Mark Paffrath, a U.S. Navy veteran, posted this question on Facebook: “why are all these cop cars here… I wonder if it has anything to do with Ferguson?” along with a photo of over 100 Department of Homeland Security vehicles parked in the parking lot of the hotel where he worked.
Little did he know this action would get him fired.
The series of events started Thursday when Paffrath was leaving work. He noticed over 100 Department of Homeland Security vehicles in the parking garage of the Drury Plaza Hotel in Chesterfield, Missouri, and posted this to Facebook:
Argus News Now reports that there were row after row of Homeland Security vehicles in the hotel’s parking lot: “If we hadn't known any better, we could have easily mistaken this for a Homeland Security garage.”
When he arrived to work on Friday, Paffrath says he was told by the hotel general manager Jeff Barker to remove the Facebook post. He complied and finished his shift.
But when he returned on Saturday, the director of security for Drury Hotels Company Jim Bohnert told Paffrath that his posts had cost the hotel a $150,000 contract with the Department of Homeland Security.
“You’re fired,” Bohnert told Paffrath. Paffrath also claims that Bohner said, “You’re a terrorist and you have dishonorably served your country by posting the photos and video.”
“If you repost the photos and video you will have the federal government knocking on your door and you will be incarcerated,” Paffrath says Bohnert added.
Seemingly unconcerned with Bohnert’s threat, Paffrath a U.S. Navy veteran who served in the Middle East, reposted the photos and video to Facebook
The hotel told Argus News Now that they have no comment on the story.
h/t: TheBlaze