Capitol protesters and protesters are being identified and losing their jobs

Capitol protesters and protesters are being identified and losing their jobs

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Navistar, a direct marketing company in Maryland, announced that an employee was fired after being photographed wearing his ID badge inside the breached Capitol building.

“While we support the right of all employees to the peaceful and legal exercise of freedom of expression, any employee who demonstrates dangerous conduct that endangers the health and safety of others will no longer have a job opportunity at Navistar Direct Marketing,” the company said in a statement provided to CNN.

A Texas lawyer named Paul Davis is no longer employed by his company, Goosehead Insurance, after social media posts appeared to show him talking about his participation in Wednesday’s events. In a video, Davis says, “we are all trying to get on Capitol Hill to stop this.”

In other posts on Facebook’s Stories feature, Davis said he was “demonstrating peacefully” all the time, and was not actively trying to invade Capitol. “I said ‘trying to get on the Capitol’, wanting to express a protest. Not in a violent way,” he wrote.

On thursday, a Twitter account owned by the Westlake, Texas based company tweeted: “Paul Davis, Associate General Counsel, is no longer an employee of Goosehead.”

CNN contacted Goosehead for further comments and was directed to a voicemail message that said, “The Goosehead employee involved in Capitol is no longer employed.”

A still image from a video posted by Texas attorney Paul Davis outside the Capitol.

It is not clear whether Davis left the company or was fired. CNN contacted Davis for comment, but received no response.

Rick Saccone, a former Pennsylvania state representative, shared images on his Facebook page outside the Capitol. Saint Vincent College, where Saccone served as an adjunct professor, immediately started an investigation, according to Michael Hustava, the institution’s Senior Director of Marketing and Communication.

“As a result of this investigation, Dr. Saccone presented and accepted his letter of resignation, with immediate effect. He will no longer be associated with Saint Vincent College in any capacity,” said Hustava in a statement provided to CNN.

“I decided to resign to improve the school,” Saccone told Tribune-Review, a news agency in western Pennsylvania, of his departure. “I’ve been there for 21 years. I didn’t want all this media confusion to taint the school. I decided it would be better if I just quit.”
Rick Saccone speaks with supporters on March 13, 2018, in Elizabeth Township, Pennsylvania. He ran for Congress that year and narrowly lost.
Saccone, who posted videos of the crowd on the ground outside the Capitol building, said in a Facebook post that everyone around him was “involved in the peaceful first amendment assembly.”

CNN contacted Saccone for further comments.

Lindsey Williams, a Pennsylvania state senator, shared a video that appeared to have been deleted from Saccone’s Facebook page. In it, Saccone says, “They’ve broken down the gates, they’re arresting them up there. We’re trying to wipe out all the bad people in there and all the RINOs who betrayed our president.

Americans in positions of power are also being disciplined for their support for violence, even if they were not on Capitol Hill. The Republican Party of Texas removed Walter West, its arms sergeant, from its position after West made comments on Facebook in support of the siege of the Capitol.

“Whereas we strongly support the First Amendment’s right to assemble freely, we condemn violence and pray for all who congregate in our nation’s capital and those on Capitol Hill,” says a statement on the Texas GOP website. “The Texas GOP has always been on the side of law and order and will continue to do so.”

In a statement, West said his Facebook posts were “misinterpreted” and that he would never “advocate violence at the ‘People’s House'”.

West’s name and photograph do not appear on the Texas GOP leadership list.

CNN’s Carma Hassan contributed to this story.

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