{"id":1021317,"date":"2021-11-16T22:14:09","date_gmt":"2021-11-17T03:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1021317"},"modified":"2021-11-16T22:14:12","modified_gmt":"2021-11-17T03:14:12","slug":"actor-rockmond-dunbar-of-9-1-1-exits-show-over-vaccine-mandate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/actor-rockmond-dunbar-of-9-1-1-exits-show-over-vaccine-mandate\/","title":{"rendered":"Actor Rockmond Dunbar of &#039;9-1-1&#039; Exits Show over Vaccine Mandate"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Factor-rockmond-dunbar-of-9-1-1-exits-show-over-vaccine-mandate%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1021317&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">Actor Rockmond Dunbar, a star of the Fox show<em> 9-1-1<\/em>, has officially departed the show due to disagreements over&nbsp;20th Television\u2019s coronavirus vaccine policies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re gonna miss you, Michael!\u201d the show tweeted of his character, who was written off the show on Monday:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"4.8947368421053\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We&#8217;re gonna miss you, Michael! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/911onFOX?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#911onFOX<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/InmS17SpVL\">pic.twitter.com\/InmS17SpVL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 9-1-1 on FOX (@911onFOX) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/911onFOX\/status\/1460427170170372099?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 16, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>According to <em>Variety<\/em>, 20th Television now <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2021\/tv\/news\/rockmond-dunbar-exits-9-1-1-covid-mandate-1235113206\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">requires<\/a> actors to be vaccinated for the Chinese coronavirus. While Dunbar sought a religious and medical exemption, he was ultimately denied.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI applied for religious and medical accommodations pursuant to the law and unfortunately was denied by my employer,\u201d he said in a statement, adding that his \u201csincerely held beliefs and private medical history are very intimate and personal aspects of my life that I do not publicly discuss and have no desire to start now.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve been an actor in this business for 30 years, but my greatest roles are as a husband and father to our 4 small children,\u201d he continued, expressing well wishes to his former castmates:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"8\">\n<p>As a man that walks in faith, I look forward to what the future holds. I have enjoyed the last 5 seasons with this wonderful cast and crew and will cherish the time I\u2019ve been blessed to spend with this series and wish everyone involved nothing but the best.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The entertainment giant, meanwhile, has continued to defend its position, mandating the vaccine for all employees working in \u201cZone A\u201d of its productions.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18781602\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" readability=\"43\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2021\/11\/Cast-of-911.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-18781602\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Cast-of-911-1024x681-1.jpg\" alt width=\"990\" height=\"658\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">NORTH HOLLYWOOD, CA \u2013 JUNE 04: (L-R) Actors Peter Krause, Angela Bassett, Connie Britton, Oliver Stark, Aisha Hinds, Kenneth Choi and Rockmond Dunbar attend the FYC Event for Fox\u2019s \u201c9-1-1\u201d at Saban Media Center on June 4, 2018 in North Hollywood, California. (Photo by Allen Berezovsky\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cWe take the health and safety of all of our employees very seriously, and have implemented a mandatory vaccination confirmation process for those working in Zone A on our productions,\u201d it said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn order to ensure a safer workplace for all, Zone A personnel who do not confirm their vaccination status and do not meet the criteria for exemption will not be eligible to work,\u201d 20th Television added.<\/p>\n<p>Dunbar\u2019s exit reflects an even greater battle across the country, as President Biden\u2019s federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA mandate )\u2013 if upheld in court \u2014 could force millions of Americans to face the same decision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actor Rockmond Dunbar, a star of the Fox show 9-1-1, has officially departed the show due to disagreements over\u00a020th Television\u2019s coronavirus vaccine policies. \u201cWe\u2019re gonna miss you, Michael!\u201d the show &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1021317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1021317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1021317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1021317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1021317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}