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Chris Flanigan, who was a math teacher at Coney Island Prep in Brooklyn, was fired from the school after posting an anti-cop Instagram post that allegedly incited violence against police officers who attended the funeral of Detective Jason Rivera.
“We do not condone or promote violence of any sort. As of this afternoon, Mr. Flanigan is no longer employed at Coney Island Prep,” Coney Island Prep CEO Leslie-Bernard Joseph announced in a statement on Sunday.
“The teachers and staff of Coney Island Prep are public servants; and like all public servants, we hold ourselves to a much higher standard,” Joseph stated. “We work hard to serve the young people in our community, and we know our police officers do as well, taking innumerable risks, to keep our city safe.”
In an interview with the New York Post on Sunday, Flanigan claimed he has received death threats over his since-deleted Instagram post. It showed an overhead shot of thousands of police officers on Fifth Avenue attending Rivera’s funeral and was captioned, “5/30/20: NYPD SUV drives into a crowd of protestors. Ideal conditions for reciprocity.” That evidently alluded to an incident where police officers were forced to drive through a crowd of demonstrators following George Floyd’s death.
3/ “ Coney Island Prep said on Sunday that Chris Flanigan, who appeared to encourage violence against cops mourning Rivera, no longer works for the school.
“We do not condone or promote violence of any sort. As of this afternoon, Mr. Flanigan is no longer employed..
— AnTheFacts (@AnTheFacts) January 31, 2022
(Video Credit: The Daily Mail)
Flanigan claimed that his post was “misconstrued” and that he was trying to point out the “vulnerability” of the police officers in the crowd.
“I was really just trying to show the vulnerability of all of these police officers being in the same place at the same time which seems like a dangerous situation for anyone that would be that gathered together,” he contended.
“I respect the NYPD. I do not condone violence,” he declared Sunday. “A 22-year-old police officer murdered in the line of duty is reprehensible. I’m devastated by that.”
“I hadn’t thought about it for the remainder of the day, thinking I did the right thing just getting ahead of it to take it down, because I didn’t want anybody else to misunderstand it or to misrepresent myself in a way that is how it is being perceived,” Flanigan said trying to justify the post. “I realized the way that it was framed looked as though I was trying to incite violence and that was not at all what I wanted to come of that post and that’s why I took it down immediately.”
@betterhelp Does Chris Flanigan still counsel for you? He advocates violence against police officers mourning a murdered minority police officer. Shameful! pic.twitter.com/X3yIMtZ7Kl
— Kevin O'Donnell (Me/I) (@KevinODNYC) January 30, 2022
Ironically, Flanigan was profiled by NY1 for his musical tributes to first responders at the beginning of the pandemic. During that interview, he said that he felt solidarity with Black Lives Matter protesters.
Flanigan’s termination followed a New York City actress named Jacqueline Guzman who was also fired by Face to Face Films after ranting about street closures during the funeral in a now-deleted TikTok video.
“We do not need to shut down most of Lower Manhattan because one cop died for probably doing his job incorrectly,” she coldly stated in the video. “They kill people who are under 22 every single day for no good reason and we don’t shut down the city for them, so.”
She then panned the camera to show ambulances and police vehicles blocking off the streets of New York.
“This is f**king ridiculous, this is f**king ridiculous,” Guzman railed. “What if someone having a heart attack in this area? No one can get to them because it’s all blocked off for one f**king cop.”
Heartless NYC actress fired for vile anti-cop rant about street closures for ‘ridiculous’ NYPD funeral https://t.co/IF1osARliA
— BPR (@BIZPACReview) January 30, 2022
The former prep school teacher’s comments set social media on fire:
Chris Flanigan, who teaches math at Coney Island Prep. For a teacher to condone any act of terrorism is reprehensible. “You have a city worker wishing physical harm or worse to fellow city workers during a solemn service,“ a Brooklyn cop said. “The ultimate act of cowardice.” pic.twitter.com/oF2qlgWxz4
— flakes (@flakes) January 30, 2022
https://twitter.com/jackedmund29001/status/1487833280074366978
@CiPrep Hey CIPrep, any time Chris Flanigan wants to talk with my step-daughter and explain to her why her NYPD Dad sacrificed his life in the Line of Duty two weeks before he got to meet her, for garbage like him, please DM me.
— Blue (@emantk7) January 30, 2022
Chris Flanigan is literally the Alec Baldwin of education.
— EvanKapitansky (@evan_kapitansky) January 30, 2022
What is going on with these teachers. We don’t want teachers like this.
— Daughter of God (@PattyGodschild) January 31, 2022
School Boards/Dems screaming let teachers teach, parents have no business in the classroom! This is clearly evidence that parents HAVE to be involved.. If this Whacko is posting this on social media, what the hell do you think he is saying in the classroom? @CiPrep
— Rylexkin (@lexkiki) January 30, 2022
good job Eric Adams, having leftist teachers that demand that cops be killed
— Chadwick Long (@chadwickslong) January 30, 2022
So, when this little twit needs help, who’s he going to call? Another teacher? A Social Worker? AOC? Bragg? Duhblasio? @nypost
— PhillpNY (@rogercny) January 30, 2022
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