Fri Apr 8, 2022 – 1:44 pm EDTFri Apr 8, 2022 – 1:44 pm EDT
NEW YORK CITY (LifeSiteNews) – A New York City attorney who was fired after she challenged Mayor Eric Adams on his failure to lift toddler mask mandates issued a statement Thursday slamming the dismissal as an attack on her First Amendment right to free speech.
On Monday, Daniela Jampel was fired less than an hour after she grilled Adams at a press conference, telling him, “Ten days ago, you stood right here, and you said that the masks would come off April 4. That has not happened.” The mayor’s staff and the mayor appeared to think she was a reporter.
The mother of three said in a tweeted statement, “I am extremely confident that the decision to terminate my employment was a result of my constitutionally protected speech regarding my views on mask mandates. I am saddened that my career at Corporation Counsel came to such an unfortunate end because of my advocacy for children.”
Jampel invoked the First Amendment, declaring, “Regardless of an individual’s position on mask mandates, I believe that all Americans understand and appreciate the sacrosanct right of
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