Ex-Cop Fired For Refusing Pandemic Mandate Doubles Down
A former police officer who reportedly lost his job with the San Francisco Police Department for refusing the COVID-19 vaccine is speaking out and doubling down on his decision. Joel Aylworth, a third-generation cop who served for 14 years on police forces in San Francisco and Oakland, discussed his passion for the job, and his reasons for declining the jab. “Police work is still one of the noblest professions out there if done correctly,” he said.
But Aylworth, 40, found himself in the crosshairs of COVID-19 mandates, leaving behind the career to which he devoted more than a decade. Aylworth said he closely monitored the COVID-19 vaccine and worried about what might happen to people like him who did not plan to receive it. “As a Christian, I don’t believe in injecting biological substances into my blood,” he previously told Fox News.
Once the mandates went through, he said he initially had no problem getting an exemption — but this soon changed and he came into disfavor with the department. “I actually had my religious exemption approved by the police human resources director,” Aylworth said. “He approved it within a day.” He continued, “And I thought, ‘Great, this is awesome … I think I’m going to be safe’ … and within about a month, everything changed.”
According to Aylworth, the exemption was pulled for him and 150 others who had already been approved; suddenly, he said a secondary review was required despite approval purportedly already having been granted a month beforehand. “I was given a month to essentially get the [vaccine] or be fired,” he said. Here’s his story.
Find out more about vaccines at the CDC’s official site: https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/index.html The CDC’s official COVID vaccine site: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/index.html The WHO’s official site: https://www.who.int/news-room/questions-and-answers/item/vaccines-and-immunization-vaccine-safety
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