12-05-2007, 09:10 AM
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Copycat staged noose...
Firefighter admits false noose report
Wednesday, December 5, 2007 - The firefighter who reported finding a knotted rope and a drawing of a noose in an East Baltimore station house is in the process of being fired for unrelated issues, Fire Department officials said Monday.
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Donald Maynard, a six-year veteran who reported the discoveries, acknowledged last week that he was the one who brought the items into the station house. Even before that admission, Maynard, who is black, had been suspended without pay for failing to complete emergency medical technician-intermediate training or making any plans to do so, said Roman Clark, a department spokesman.
The note Maynard said he found Nov. 21 read: "We can't hang the cheaters but we can hang the failures. No EMT-I, no job." Officials said Maynard had until Nov. 30 to complete EMT training. The purported finding of the rope and note set off a new round of racial tension within the department, already under criticism for race-related hiring and promotion issues.
After news of the incident was reported, cars stopped at Maynard's station house and drivers made threatening remarks to members, a firefighters union leader said. "They were afraid for their own safety," said Richard G. Schluderberg, president of Baltimore Fire Fighters Local 734. "Any time you make false racial allegations, I think it does more to harm racial relations."
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