A woman whose picture went viral after she raised her middle finger at Donald Trump as his motorcade passed her on her bicycle has been fired from her job. “They said, ‘We’re separating from you,’” Briskman told the Huffington Post. Briskman said she pointed out that her social media pages do not mention her employer, and that the incident happened on her own time. After leaving his Virginia golf club and before passing Briskman, Trump’s motorcade passed a pedestrian who gave a vigorous thumbs-down gesture. As news of Briskman’s firing spread, many social media users asked why she was being penalized for expressing free speech on her own time, under the first amendment to the US constitution.

Source: The Guardian November 06, 2017 18:56 UTC