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A New York City employee was fired from her job just hours after her former employer claims she posed as a reporter and questioned New York City Mayor Eric Adams about his decision not to “unmask our toddlers.”
Daniela Jampel was terminated from her role with the New York City Law Department, an agency spokesperson to Fox News. The outlet reports that records showed she had worked for the department for years as assistant corporation counsel.
Jampel attended Adams’ Monday press conference and said: “Three weeks ago you told parents to trust you, that you would unmask our toddlers. Ten days ago you stood right here and you said that the masks would come off on April 4th. That has not happened, you reneged on your promise.”
Adams said on March 22 that he stands with New York City parents and announced that if COVID-19 numbers “continue to show a low level of risk, masks will be optional for 2–4-year olds in school and daycare, starting on April 4.”
Jampel noted that the Adams administration managed to stay a court order on Friday that would have blocked the toddler mask mandate. The New York Post reports that as Jampel attempted to ask why, City Hall staffers tried to cut her off when they realized she wasn’t a reporter, but the mayor allowed her to continue.
“So my questions are, what is the irreparable harm to children aged 2 to 4 take off their masks, just as they do in Long Island, just as they do in Westchester?” Jampel asked. “When will you—and when will you unmask our toddlers?”
OutKick founder Clay Travis said during Tuesday’s OutKick the Show that this is a travesty of science, justice, and facts.
“It needs to be called out,” Travis said. “Credit to Daniela Jampel for speaking out here, even though speaking out cost her her job.”
While students in kindergarten through twelfth grade can come to school without masks in New York City, a mandate has remained in place for children ages 2-4, because no Covid vaccines are approved for children under age 5, Yahoo reports.
A Staten Island judge blocked the mandate on Friday, calling it “arbitrary, capricious and unreasonable,” but an appeals court stayed that order after the Adams administration contested it.
While Adams said initially that he would rescind the mandate on April 4, he responded to Jampel’s question with: “I also stated if we see an uptick” in COVID cases, “we will come back and make the announcement of what we’re going to do.”
The Post reports that Jampel was fired Monday, about an hour after the press conference, but her employer told the outlet the decision was made prior to the event.
“We hold all of our employees to the highest professional standards. In public statements, Ms. Jampel has made troubling claims about her work for the city Law Department. Based on those statements, the decision had been made to terminate her prior to today,” the spokesman said, per The Post.
“Today’s events, however, which include her decision to lie to City Hall staff and state she was a journalist at a press conference, demonstrate a disturbing lack of judgment and integrity. As of today, she is no longer an employee of the Law Department.”
Jampel told The Post in a statement, “I am retaining counsel and will not litigate in the press.”
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Good quit electing and re electing these tyrants one after the other citizens in that pathetic city never seem to learn so you get what you get
We don’t elect our leaders, Dominon does.. or the CPP who controls them does…
If you are a parent of small children what on earth are you doing still living in NYC?
The city needs to pony up the evidence that they were going to fire her. And they need to give her notice which I doubt they did. She probably has an excellent case for a a lawsuit.
Adams is no better than that tool, DiBlasio. He’s a fucking peacock, that’s all.
I hope she sues the city and wins. Tired of people getting fired for expressing their dissent. I hope all the city workers who were fired for not getting the vaccine sue the city as well.
You get what you vote for—in this case, a diversity hire. Let it burn and rebuild from the ashes.
These people need to all go for a long swim in the Hudson and not come back.
Sure, it was just coincidence she was fired for asking relevant and pointed questions regarding the law. Not because Adams is the picture of unprepared and even less informed and will do everything he can to avoid criticism. I hope she owns the city after he lawsuit.