TV station fires producer who yelled n-word at neighbor

[Beakybird]

Source: Miami Herald

The WSVN-Channel 7 producer caught lobbing the n-word at a Fort Lauderdale neighbor during a dispute over street parking was fired by the Fox affiliate on Monday morning, just days after her second anniversary at the station.

Robin Cross, 49 and a South Florida news figure for most of her adult life, was placed on leave last week when the neighbor’s son sent the station a letter and video about the incident.

The footage went viral, and WSVN terminated her in less than a week.

“After conducting a thorough investigation, WSVN has terminated a 7 News producer who was caught on cellphone video using a racial slur,” station spokeswoman Lily Pardo said in a statement. “WSVN will not tolerate any kind of discriminatory language or behavior.”



Read more: http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/ent-columns-blogs/jose-lambiet/article199652129.html

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Hooray!

[CatMor]

1. It's about time.

[SoCalMusicLover]

2. Couldn't See That Coming

Won't look good on her resume.

[RKP5637]

4. ... and why did you leave your last job? DUH! Long silent pause. n/t

[Gothmog]

3. Yeah

[brush]

5. Wow. They did the right thing. That video revealed a real ugly side of that person.

Hope this is a warning to the trumpsters who now think it's ok to spew racial slurs freely.

[Corgigal]

6. There! They said it, finally.

Try getting unemployment now, sweetie. Explain..no mortgage money for you.

[Beakybird]

7. Her only hope is Fox News

[Skittles]

8. cue conservative idiots to start wailing about "free speech"

as if they are unaware "free speech" can come with consequences

[rusty fender]

9. Jeebus!

I think that she would’ve gotten fired even if she hadn’t said the n-word. She was very abusive to her neighbor.

[riversedge]

10. There is some hope for America (no help from vulgar Trump and his gang)

[Judi Lynn]

11. Robin Cross: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know

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5. Cross Is Accused of Using Her Press Credentials to Intimidate Fenton

The Herald reports that according to Robert Fenton, Cross started waving her WSVN press credentials at him after he stopped filming the conversation.

“She was using her press credentials as a weapon,” he said. “It’s saying look at who I am and how much power I have. I’m gonna get you.

According to the New Times, Avery Fenton says that his father was met with “obscene language and verbal attacks” and that Cross was continually flashing her news credentials in his face.

“Apparently she had a work badge,” said the younger Fenton in his letter to the New Times. “The video clearly ends with her using extremely foul language, and then a personal attack on me as my father’s son, for dating my girlfriend who is African American. The most awful of racial slurs was used, followed by ‘finally I said it out loud.'”

. . .

“Obviously, she [Cross] is very bigoted and there’s something wrong with her,” the elder Fenton added.

More:
https://heavy.com/news/2018/02/robin-cross-video-robert-avery-fenton/

[BumRushDaShow]

12. The video is wild

They are arguing about parking in the street and her blocking his driveway (and he is pretty calm but firm and she is dropping f-bombs in every retort) and then she eventually hauls off with what she thought was a final smug insult about his son "dating a fucking nigger".

Living breathing walking talking example of white privilege.

[iluvtennis]

13. Glad she was fired. Absolutely asinine how she behaved

[Major Nikon]

14. ...

[sinkingfeeling]

15. Took long enough.