Man who burned Koran at Ground Zero fired from job as NJ Transit employee
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Last Updated: 7:16 PM, September 14, 2010

Posted: 7:15 PM, September 14, 2010

The man captured on camera ripping pages out of a Koran and burning them near Ground Zero in lower Manhattan Saturday -- the ninth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks -- was fired from his job at NJ Transit, the New Jersey transportation provider told NewsCore Tuesday.

NJ Transit said that Derek Fenton's "public actions" violated its code of ethics and that he “violated his trust as a state employee.â€