Your link doesn't work. And people who protest at personal risk are doing so out of principle, generally. As a republican, you may not understand this, but not everyone is motivated purely by money.
Fire Chief Resigns After Using Racial Slur Against Steelers Coach Volunteer Fire Chief Paul Smith of the Muse Fire Department, shown during an earlier interview, apologized and then resigned after using a racial slur in a post about the Steelers coach. “Tomlin just added himself to the list of no good N*****s. Yes I said it,” the fire chief wrote of head coach Mike Tomlin. 09/26/2017 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/fire-chief-resigns-steelers-coach-slur_us_59ca9c2ce4b07e9ca11f41c3 [with embedded video, and comments]