12 FBI Agents Who Knelt During BLM/Antifa/Floyd Riots Sue to Get Their Jobs Back

I've always concluded that the agents knelt as a genuine expression of their political views. In which case I don't think firing them was obligatory, but--depending on the FBI's established procedures--may well be permissible.

   They now apparently claim that they did it purely as a means to calm the crowd. If true, I'd guess that it was permissible. Though, to my mind, it's in the very rough vicinity of quieting a neo-Nazi mob with some "Heil Hitlers" or nazi salutes... Or soothing a Pantyfa mob by reciting some passages from Marx or Lenin. That is: perhaps prudent...but pretty gross.

   Anyhoo, I don't know and am happy that it's the courts and not me deciding this one.