After NYPD Cop Punch, Philly Anchor is Fired

Let this be a lesson to KYW-TV employees: If you allegedly punch a police officer and call her a dyke, you're out of a job! Well, actually, Philadelphia reporter Alycia Lane also embarrassed herself when she sent bikini photographs to a married reporter's joint email account with his wife, so maybe the math is bikini-photo scandal + cop punching = firing.

FishbowlNY reports that the Philadelphia CBS affiliate now finds, after "assessing the overall impact of a series of incidents resulting from judgments she has made...it would be impossible for Alycia to continue to report the news as she, herself, has become the focus of so many news stories." But KYW-TV adds, "We wish to make clear that we are not prejudging the outcome of the criminal case against Alycia that is pending in New York. We understand that Alycia expects to be fully vindicated in that proceeding."

Lane, who is accused of punching a police officer at West 17th Street and 9th Avenue and saying, "I don't give a fuck who you are I am a reporter you fucking dyke!", is getting ready to sue the station. Her lawyer released a statement saying the firing is "unfair," "unusual," and "unwarranted."