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The US Air Force has confirmed the suspension
Updated : Jan 31, 2018, 05:32 PM IST
The United States Air Force has suspended a technical sergeant after the latter posted an expletive-laden video to Facebook of herself in uniform spouting off about her African American subordinates, whom she alleged gave her ‘attitude’ and have ‘no respect’ whatsoever.
In the video, Tech. Sgt. Geraldine Lovely is heard saying, “I am trying my best to hold my professionalism with them, but good God, they have no fu***** respect whatsoever,” Lovely said in the video. “Every time I talk to them, they are talking down to me. Why is it that every time I encounter my subordinates that are black females they have a giant fu***** attitude?” she asked.
In the release that addresses Lovely’s suspension, the Nellis AFB Nevada, the home of testing, tactics and advanced training for the Combat Air Force, had confirmed Lovely’s suspension and gave a detailed explanation why they were going ahead with her suspension.
Official Statement on Facebook video from U.S. Air Force Warfare Center Commander Major General Peter Gersten. pic.twitter.com/vrt1NgBWtr
— Nellis AFB Nevada (@NellisAFB) January 30, 2018
Lovely’s suspension comes a week after Georgia State University soccer player Natalia Martinez was reprimanded for using a racial slur in a video she posted on social media. Martinez was suspended from the team and withdrew from the school, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Another college student, Harley Barber, was expelled from the University of Alabama days before for posting a video filled with racial slurs on Martin Luther King Jr. Day.