Arbitrator upholds firing of Bexar County Sheriff's Office lieutenant who was at Jan. 6 Capitol riot
SAN ANTONIO -- An arbitrator has upheld the firing of a lieutenant with the Bexar County Sheriff’s Office who lost her job after sharing Facebook photos of herself near the Jan. 6 siege of the U.S. Capitol, KSAT reports.
BCSO terminated Lt. Roxanne Mathai, 47, in June. Her dismissal came after Sheriff Javier Salazar said he'd forwarded the eight-year department veteran's Facebook images to the FBI and Washington police.
In comments to local media in January, Salazar confirmed that the lieutenant had already been on leave since last October, pending a probe into whether she'd had an inappropriate relationship with an inmate.
In her appeal of the firing, Mathai told an arbitrator she was only present at a historic event, KSAT reports. Even though five people died and dozens of police were injured in the riot, Mathai's attorneys previously told the TV station she was unaware of the violence taking place that day.
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