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Amazon.com’s Whole Foods Market doesn’t want to be forced to let workers wear “Black Lives Matter” masks and is pointing to the recent US Supreme Court ruling permitting a business owner to refuse services to same-sex couples to get federal regulators to back off.

National Labor Relations Board prosecutors have accused the grocer of stifling worker rights by banning staff from wearing BLM masks or pins on the job. The company countered in a filing that its own rights are being violated if it’s forced to allow BLM slogans to be worn with Whole Foods uniforms.

Amazon is the most prominent company to use the high court’s June ruling that a Christian web designer was free to refuse to design sites for gay weddings, saying the case “provides a clear roadmap” to throw out the NLRB’s complaint.

The dispute is one of several in which labor board officials are considering what counts as legally-protected, work-related communication and activism on the job.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

You're aware there is a video of Floyd's murder right? He's not ODing, and neither autopsy supports that conclusion.

https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-george-floyd-autopsy-new-892530421961

You know what there is evidence supporting though? Derick Chauvin had a history of problematic encounters with other arrestees. Even if George Floyd was a "thug" this was an extrajudicial murder. Cops don't get to be judge, jury or executioner.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

He literally had OD levels of fentanyl and meth in his system, a half chewed speedball pill was found in the cop car he was in, and he had eaten all the drugs he had on his person in prior arrest videos.

He wasn't killed by anyone but himself

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Of course your right, two medical examiners are wrong. He was just about to drop dead from the "overdose levels" of drugs in his system before that cop knelt on his neck for 9 1/2 minutes. George Floyd was no saint, but that doesn't make his death any less of a murder.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

He was just about to drop dead from the "overdose levels" of drugs in his system before that cop knelt on his neck for 9 1/2 minutes

Question for you. At what point did Floyd start saying he couldn't breathe?

A: while he was still getting into the cop car, before he asked to lie on the ground? B: as he was being detained on the ground?

Hint: the answer is A

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

OK, so Chauvin knew Floyd was having breathing difficulty and still decided to kneel on his neck well after he became motionless, well after he was handcuffed and prone. What is your argument here?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Making claims to the contrary is a pretty good indicator of ones media diet...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Funny you say that, the "OD killed George Floyd" theory was floated by "No reasonable viewer takes him seriously" Tucker Carlson.