WASHINGTON: The FBI has fired a group of its agents photographed kneeling on the street in an attempt to de-escalate tensions during a racial justice protest in Washington in 2020 in the aftermath of George Floyd’s killing by police in Minneapolis, three people familiar with the matter said on Friday.The terminations came amid a spate of dismissals within the ranks of the nation’s most prominent law enforcement agency since Kash Patel, a Trump loyalist, was confirmed by the Republican-controlled US Senate in Feb to lead the FBI. It was not clear precisely how many FBI agents were terminated on Friday. (This is a Reuters story)
