A Philadelphia Family Court supervisor who was videotaped over the weekend tearing down Black Lives Matter signs from a fence at a South Philadelphia park and saying he doesn't care about black lives was fired from his job Monday.
Michael Henkel, 61, of South Philadelphia, had worked as a writ-server supervisor. After a video was shared widely on social media of his taking down the signs at Columbus Square park, at 12th and Reed Streets, the city's First Judicial District terminated his job.
In the video, after a woman is heard yelling out to him: "Black Lives Matter," Henkel responded: "Not to me, they don't."
The 34-second video posted on a woman's Facebook page Sunday afternoon attracted more than 800 comments and 2,000 shares by noon Monday. The woman who posted the video could not be reached Monday. She wrote on her post that a passerby in a car had yelled out "Black lives matter!" to the man. Her post was removed from public view early Monday afternoon.
A Philly court supervisor was fired after tearing down signs and saying he doesn’t care about black lives
In the video, after a woman is heard yelling out to him, “Black Lives Matter," he responds, “Not to me, they don’t.”
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