An actress currently living in New York City was fired after ranting in a video on social media about being inconvenienced by street closures because of a police officer’s funeral.
New York City actress Jacqueline Guzman has been fired from her theater company for ranting about the inconvenience of street closures for fallen officer Jason Rivera’s funeral — a vile, hateful tirade that she quickly deleted after it went viral.
“We do not need to shut down most of Lower Manhattan because one cop died for probably doing his job incorrectly. They kill people who are under 22 every single day for no good reason and we don’t shut down the city for them,” Guzman said in the video, which appeared on her TikTok account @vinylboobs.
In the video, Guzman spoke into the camera, filming herself walking down an empty street, which had been barricaded off. The actress went on to pan the camera around to the closed street, stating: “Like this is f–king ridiculous. This is f–king ridiculous. What if somebody is having a heart attack in this area. Nobody can get to them because it’s all blocked off for one f–king cop.”
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Jacqueline Guzman is a disgrace. #NYPD @nypost @NYDailyNews @realDailyWire @1010WINS pic.twitter.com/CJoXDDbvXW
— TheRussianfromNYC (@BangingBeatzNYC) January 29, 2022
Following the almost-immediate backlash, Guzman took down her social media accounts.
Despite deleting the video, it continued to circulate on social media because it had been copied and reposted by other social media users.
The name of Guzman’s acting company, Face to Face Films, and other personal details about her were quickly uncovered by viewers of the video, and posted to social media.
After the theater company was made aware of the situation, the company released a statement revealing that the actress had been fired.
“Face to Face Films has just been made aware of an insensitive video involving one of our members, Jacqueline Guzman. Face to Face Films does not support nor can condone these comments made about fallen Officer Rivera. As a result, she is no longer a member of our company,” the company posted on its Facebook page.
People took to social media to condemn Guzman’s comments.
“New Yorkers turned out by the thousands yesterday to help us honor our fallen brother. One person spreading hate cannot erase that. This kind of garbage has polluted the conversation for far too long. We need the New Yorkers who are standing with us to speak up and push back,” said Patrick Lynch, president of the Police Benevolent Association of the City of New York.
One cop from Brooklyn said the video was “totally disrespectful, not only to the NYPD but to all New York residents and to all humans. If this is the only way she can get publicity, I feel very sorry for her.”
