NEW YORK (PIX11) -- A longtime assistant commissioner has been fired from the FDNY after posting a video to social media that some — including Mayor Eric Adams — perceived as racist.
The video shows minority students transporting cotton balls across a room with their hands tied behind their backs. It was filmed inside an FDNY training classroom in Queens during a summer program at the department’s Youth Leadership Academy.
Luz Hanny said her twin daughters were in the class in question. “I didn’t like the children that had their hands tied behind their backs,” she said. “I found that discriminating to me.”
One of her daughters appears in the controversial clip, which the FDNY had described as a common team-building exercise in August.
Adams called the video “terrible.”
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