MIAMI (WSVN) – A Metropolis of Miami Hearth Rescue firefighter has come ahead and is talking out hours after the division confirmed he was fired for writing controversial feedback in a textual content thread about regulation enforcement officers following the passing of Miami-Dade Police Officer Cesar Echaverry.

Kevin Newcomb was terminated on Friday after he wrote the next profanity-laced remarks in a gaggle chat:

“Who cares? One other lifeless cop, in all probability in opposition to gun management. They didn’t give an [expletive] when youngsters had been dying in that faculty capturing they stood exterior. Cops exist for the federal government to train its monopoly on violence. They need the entire world to cease when considered one of theirs goes down. What number of idiots I needed to transport with honor guard their lifeless our bodies from coronavirus as a result of all of them had been too silly to put on masks or get vaccinated? All cops are good for is defending the wealthy property homeowners and the established order. All the pieces else is a farce. [Expletive] the police.”

7News reached out to Newcomb for remark. Friday night, he responded with a prolonged assertion.

It reads partly, “I’m penning this to apologize for the statements which have been circulating that I made earlier this week with some pals in a non-public chat.”

Newcomb went on to write down, “I sincerely apologize to these closest to officer Echaverry who’ve been made to really feel extra ache due to my phrases. I want I might take them again.”

Newcomb’s feedback got here after one other controversial assertion heard on police radio by a Metropolis of Miami Police officer within the wake of the Liberty Metropolis capturing that claimed Echaverry’s life.

The officer, commenting on different fast-driving officers speeding to the scene of the capturing, was heard saying, “Let ‘em know they’re gonna have one other officer down in the event that they preserve going at 70 miles an hour close to my automobile.”

The regulation enforcer was promptly put in his place by a supervisor.

“Let’s try to use a bit bit extra tact and never grasp anyone up. If they’ve an officer down, they’re gonna move you at 80 miles an hour subsequent time,” stated the supervisor.

A spokesperson for Miami Police stated the division is investigating.

In an announcement, Miami Hearth Rescue Chief Joseph Zahralban confirmed Newcomb’s termination, efficient Friday.

Zahralban wrote, “We have now confirmed that the firefighter in query authored a written assertion utilizing a social media platform that demonstrated a disregard for human life, demonstrated a violent and antagonistic stance in the direction of civil servants and represented conduct unbecoming of a Miami Firefighter.”

Zahralban is referring to remarks written in a gaggle chat in response to Echaverry’s demise a number of days after he was shot a number of occasions in a shootout with an armed theft suspect in Miami’s Liberty Metropolis neighborhood. The 29-year-old succumbed to his accidents Wednesday night time.

The group chat remarks are as follows:

Miami Hearth Rescue officers stated on Thursday that the firefighter in query had been relieved of responsibility.

In Friday’s assertion, Zahralban wrote, “These traits make it unimaginable for this particular person to hold out his duties as a primary responder within the Metropolis of Miami.”

Newcomb concluded his assertion by writing, “I hope that my actions don’t proceed to distract from the mourning of Officer Echaverry, who didn’t deserve any of this.”

Newcomb additionally apologized to the Miami and Miami-Dade police departments.

Native regulation enforcement and others locally paid their respects to Echaverry on Friday morning as a procession transported his physique from Jackson Memorial Hospital to the Miami-Dade Medical Examiner’s Workplace.

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