{"id":184374,"date":"2021-02-21T03:28:28","date_gmt":"2021-02-21T00:28:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/fdny-chief-claims-he-lost-a-promotion-over-racially-charged-letters\/"},"modified":"2021-02-21T03:28:28","modified_gmt":"2021-02-21T00:28:28","slug":"fdny-chief-claims-he-lost-a-promotion-over-racially-charged-letters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/fdny-chief-claims-he-lost-a-promotion-over-racially-charged-letters\/","title":{"rendered":"#FDNY chief claims he lost a promotion over racially charged letters"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A high-ranking FDNY chief\u00a0was\u00a0denied a promotion because he refused to recant racially charged letters he sent slamming the department\u2019s diversity efforts, he claims in a First Amendment lawsuit. <\/p>\n

FDNY Commissioner Daniel Nigro allegedly\u00a0directed Deputy Assistant Chief of Operations Michael F. Gala Jr. to retract the\u00a0decade-old\u00a0<\/strong>missives he sent to The Chief Leader\u00a0news<\/a>paper,\u00a0criticizing the reform proposals brought on by\u00a0a lengthy court battle\u00a0with The Vulcan Society,\u00a0a fraternal group of black FDNY firefighters.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe retraction . . . should say \u2018I am not the same man I was,\u2019\u201d Gala\u00a0<\/strong>was told, according to his Brooklyn Federal Court lawsuit.<\/p>\n

In exchange, Gala\u00a0would be promoted to Assistant Chief of Department, he said in his legal filing.<\/p>\n

In the Chief Leader letters, Gala was responding to\u00a0the Vulcan Society\u2019s complaints that the FDNY discriminated against blacks and Latinos in its hiring practices.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am tired of listening to black and female firefighters who have earned their positions in this department or who have risen through the ranks on their own merits and yet condemn the same system that facilitated that rise,\u201d Gala wrote in a 2008 letter to the editor, one of at least two he authored that\u00a0ran\u00a0in the civil service newspaper.<\/p>\n

\u201cGod forbid someone started an FDNY white firefighters association. Imagine the field day the race-baiters would have with that,\u201d he wrote in a July 2007 letter. <\/p>\n

In 2014, the city\u00a0agreed to pay $98 million to candidates passed over because of alleged racial bias.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Gala Jr.,\u00a0who is\u00a0the father of\u00a0disgraced ex-EMT Robert Gala,\u00a0claims the letters were constitutionally protected free speech and refused to retract them. He is asking for unspecified damages and wants a judge to order his promotion.<\/p>\n

The FDNY denied Gala\u2019s promotion hinged on the retraction.\u00a0Even if Gala\u2019s allegations were true, the department is \u201centitled to judgment as a matter of law,\u201d a city lawyer wrote in court papers.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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“#FDNY chief claims he lost a promotion over racially charged letters” A high-ranking FDNY chief\u00a0was\u00a0denied a promotion because he refused to recant racially charged letters he sent slamming the department\u2019s diversity efforts, he claims in a First Amendment lawsuit. FDNY Commissioner Daniel Nigro allegedly\u00a0directed Deputy Assistant Chief of Operations Michael F. Gala Jr. to retract…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":184375,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/02\/Michael-F.-Gala-.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[94366,72166,61184,73816,70446,28776,4937],"class_list":["post-184374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-2-20-21","tag-brooklyn-federal-court","tag-fdny","tag-free-speech","tag-lawsuits","tag-race","tag-racism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}