Woman Hailed as “She-Ro” Fired For Flipping Off Donald Trump’s Motorcade
Juli Briskman gives the middle finger to the president and her employer was not pleased.
We should replace those offensive statues all across USA with statues of @julibriskman on her bike, flipping off @realDonaldTrump !!! pic.twitter.com/AHOjHAdRAT
— brandy leblanc (@brandyjo21) November 6, 2017
The picture, snapped by a White House photographer traveling with the president as he left his golf course in Sterling, Va., went viral almost immediately. News outlets picked up the story when it appeared in a White House pool report. Late-night talk show hosts told jokes about the encounter and people on social media began hailing the unidentified woman as a “she-ro,” using the hashtag #Her2020.
The woman’s name is Juli Briskman. Her employer, government contractor Akima LLC, wasn’t so happy about the photo. They fired her over it.
In a Saturday interview with HuffPost, Briskman, a 50-year-old mother of two, said she was stunned that someone had taken a picture of her giving Trump the middle finger.
As the photo circulated online, Briskman decided to tell Akima’s HR department what was happening when she went to work on Monday. By Tuesday, her bosses called her into a meeting and said she had violated the company’s social media policy by using the photo as her profile picture on Twitter and Facebook.
