Me too if it means better protection for private business owners to freely choose who they will employ.
My fledgling 4.5 year network of outdoor service operators is now at seven owners w combined 23 employees. If I were to learn that any of them were hanging at White Nationalist rallies it would result in terminating that portion of my network.
Remember the guy you met w me in Clearwater last summer? A very solid tree service operator but his wife and several workers were hardcore drunks. So in January I cut off our deal even though I had no direct evidence of any on the job drinking. Knowing their general leanings was sufficient cause for me to know I did not want to be connecting them w clients even though the work history was virtually complaint free.
All good, I found two more seriously invested operators who do not demonstrate such debilitating habits.
Would be a real drag if the former guy could sue me in court for my choice to terminate our at the time 30 month deal
But this is my issue with this story. Nobody knows what he was doing there.
I work with several photographers that document historic events. They go to these events to document history and improve their craft. One of them could be photographed wearing a helmet or something to protect their head because of the violence and the next thing you know, they are labeled as hanging out with these KKK groups when they are not.
We don't know anything about this guy and I think it's dangerous to fire a guy based on what you see in a single still photo.
I am going to take a flyer and presume that LAB Gym - if they had any kind of relationship w this guy - used a bit more than an internet photo to fuel their decision.
Client feedback, the guy's own conversation and behavior etc would likely help them know if he was an investigative photographer on a road trip or if he was just an unrepentant advocate for bigoted thinking.
Bottom line, we will never know so now I have to get back to Rays v Royals because WILD CARD
Client feedback, the guy's own conversation and behavior etc would likely help them know if he was an investigative photographer on a road trip or if he was just an unrepentant advocate for bigoted thinking.
Bottom line, we will never know so now I have to get back to Rays v Royals because WILD CARD
It was not long before appalled members and co-workers at the Lab Gym began sharing the image, as well as another photo showing a white-helmeted protester shouting in the midst of a crowd of Tiki-torch carrying marchers.
Gym owner Justin Thacker declined to comment when contacted by the Riverfront Times, but he told clients in an email that Ritter had been terminated.
"After careful consideration, the Lab Gym has severed working relations with Bobby Ritter," Thacker wrote. "There has been questions, concerns, and some evidence to part ways based on differences concerning important core principles that are innate to the Lab Gym and it’s mission."
Ritter, who moved to the St. Louis metro area after attending Washington State University, taught a course called "Heavy Metal CrossFit," although CrossFit's general counsel says he is not a licensed CrossFit trainer and he does appear in CrossFit's official trainer directory. He was known around the gym as a vocal Trump supporter, people associated with the gym told the RFT. He has since gone quiet, shutting down his Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn accounts. His phone number is also unlisted, and the RFT has been unable to reach him for comment. (We will update the story if we hear from him.)
In a cached version of his now-dark Twitter account, a younger Ritter is shown pressing a barbell overhead. The tattoo, prominently displayed in the Vox story, is clearly visible.
Ritter is the latest person from St. Louis to come under fire after being identified from images taken around the Charlottesville march, which drew white supremacists from around the nation. They gathered in Virginia to oppose removal of a statue of Confederate general Robert E. Lee. Marchers clashed throughout the weekend with counter-protesters, leading up to the terrifying moment when a 20-year-old marcher drove a Dodge Challenger into a crowd of anti-racists, killing 32-year-old Heather Heyer.
Gym owner Justin Thacker declined to comment when contacted by the Riverfront Times, but he told clients in an email that Ritter had been terminated.
"After careful consideration, the Lab Gym has severed working relations with Bobby Ritter," Thacker wrote. "There has been questions, concerns, and some evidence to part ways based on differences concerning important core principles that are innate to the Lab Gym and it’s mission."
Ritter, who moved to the St. Louis metro area after attending Washington State University, taught a course called "Heavy Metal CrossFit," although CrossFit's general counsel says he is not a licensed CrossFit trainer and he does appear in CrossFit's official trainer directory. He was known around the gym as a vocal Trump supporter, people associated with the gym told the RFT. He has since gone quiet, shutting down his Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn accounts. His phone number is also unlisted, and the RFT has been unable to reach him for comment. (We will update the story if we hear from him.)
In a cached version of his now-dark Twitter account, a younger Ritter is shown pressing a barbell overhead. The tattoo, prominently displayed in the Vox story, is clearly visible.
Ritter is the latest person from St. Louis to come under fire after being identified from images taken around the Charlottesville march, which drew white supremacists from around the nation. They gathered in Virginia to oppose removal of a statue of Confederate general Robert E. Lee. Marchers clashed throughout the weekend with counter-protesters, leading up to the terrifying moment when a 20-year-old marcher drove a Dodge Challenger into a crowd of anti-racists, killing 32-year-old Heather Heyer.
He has since gone quiet, shutting down his Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn accounts. His phone number is also unlisted, and the RFT has been unable to reach him for comment.
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wow, why has he gone hiding?....rather cowardly. Does he wear that mask because of local air pollution?
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wow, why has he gone hiding?....rather cowardly. Does he wear that mask because of local air pollution?
Collin Kaepernic
