Hoax Confirmed: The Insulted Paramedic of Knoxville (2017)
In 2017 the ‘Jewish Daily Forward’ reported the following ‘anti-Semitic hate crime’ in Knoxville, Tennessee:
‘A Jewish paramedic in Tennessee has filed a civil rights lawsuit against his former employer for making disparaging remarks about his faith and then firing him for complaining.
Joshua Jenkins was fired in March 2016 after working for the Grainger County Ambulance Service for two years. He is asking for $500,000 in compensatory damages and back pay.
According to the lawsuit, Jenkins’ direct supervisor, Patrick Donnelly, and the director of the ambulance service, Roger Ritchie, both mocked his Judaism, the Knoxville News Sentinel reported. Ritchie also disparaged teenage Holocaust diarist Anne Frank, the lawsuit alleges.
“On or about September 12, 2015, Mr. Jenkins and Mr. Ritchie were in Mr. Ritchie’s office when Mr. Ritchie commented that if he were not a paramedic, he would open a hot dog stand called ‘Anne’s Franks’ and proceeded to draw a mock logo that included the words: ‘Fire Roasted Anne’s Franks We Jew Hotdogs Since 1945,’” he said, the News Sentinel reported, citing the lawsuit.
The lawsuit also alleges that Donnelly told Jenkins in January 2016 to “get off your lazy Jewish (expletive)” and handle Donnelly’s ambulance calls, according to the newspaper.’ (1)
Naturally the fact that this is all utter hearsay on the part of Joshua Jenkins and likely a cover up for the fact that Jenkins was fired for other reasons – such as lateness or incompetence – but was crying ‘anti-Semitism’ to try and get a large financial settlement, which was ultimately proven by the fact that Jenkins himself was forced to ‘voluntarily’ retract his law suit probably due to lack of having any… well… actual evidence in early 2018. (2)
References
(1) http://forward.com/fast-forward/374596/fired-paramedic-sues-ambulance-service-for-mocking-judaism-and-anne-frank
(2) https://www.pacermonitor.com/public/case/20733806/Jenkins_v_Grainger_County_Ambulance_Authority_et_al_JRG2