Brian Beckmann, a captain in the Miami-Dade fire department, posted a rant on his Facebook page suggesting that Trayvon Martin shooter George Zimmerman was unjustly accused and that Martin’s killing can be blamed upon poor parenting by “urban” parents who are “welfare dependent”: This is important because as a public servant responsible for saving lives, his racist views make it hard for people in his community to have confidence in the intergrity of the work he would perform for them. In a life and death situation, people would not have confidence that Brian Beckmann would have their best interest in mind.