Officials Confirm Man Shouting 'White Power' in Video Shared by Trump Is Retired Miami Firefighter

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(NBC Miami) Miami-Dade Fire Rescue has confirmed that the man chanting the racist slogan "white power" in a controversial video retweeted by President Donald Trump Sunday was a retired Miami-Dade firefighter.

The video appeared to have been taken at The Villages, a Florida retirement community, and showed dueling demonstrations between Trump supporters and opponents.

“Thank you to the great people of The Villages,” Trump tweeted along with the video.

Moments into the video clip he shared, a man driving a golf cart displaying pro-Trump signs and flags shouts "white power." The video also shows anti-Trump protesters shouting “Nazi," “racist," and profanities at the Trump backers.

Trump eventually deleted the tweet, and the White House later issued a statement saying the president had not heard "the one statement" on the video. "White power" is a slogan associated with white supremacists.

On Sunday evening, the Miami Firefighters labor union denied a claim made on Twitter that the man was a retired City of Miami firefighter.

By Monday morning, however, Miami-Dade Fire Rescue put out an official statement confirming that the man was indeed a "longtime" retired MDFR employee.

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[Freedomofspeech]

1. The Villages...

What a hell hole.

[zipplewrath]

6. Hot bed of STD's

Or so it's been reported.

[Funtatlaguy]

7. Yes. It's a Republican Peyton Place for horny old racists.

[Freedomofspeech]

9. Probably lies...

Those old bastards do not have enough blood in their brains for it to flow anyplace else.🙄

[louis-t]

2. Villages of the Damned.

[GitRDun]

3. Roger Stokes retired firefighter

I bet his kids are blushing with.....pride.

[Hortensis]

4. I hope this schmuck is every bit as racist as this sounds.

Since this is his new identity from now on, he should richly deserve it. I'd like that confirmed just for comfort, though. Although he ended up angry, he might have have responded with a joke to some very badly behaved whackjob calling him a racist and Nazi. Not something that happens to any of us every day, even those who proudly support Trump.

Like FreedomofSpeech's offering in fact. "Hellhole." Or me once telling a Republican who claimed I supported widespread welfare fraud because I was a Democrat, of course, that making people happy with other peoples' money gave me warm fuzzies.

[SoCalNative]

5. They should take away

his pension

[dalton99a]

8. "White Power" retired firefighter Roger Stokes:

https://www.ocala.com/article/LK/20070131/News/604221768/OS
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