Florida prosecutor suspended after Facebook rant

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(CNN) — A Florida assistant state attorney has been suspended after allegedly writing controversial Facebook posts slamming the type of people in downtown Orlando and those who go to nightclubs.

The posts were made shortly after Sunday's deadly attack on Pulse nightclub.

In the initial Facebook post provided by the State Attorney's Office, Kenneth Lewis allegedly described downtown Orlando as "a melting pot of 3rd world miscreants and ghetto thugs."

Lewis also singled out Orlando's nightclubs in a second social media rant, writing: "All Orlando nightclubs should be permanently closed. With or without random gunmen they are zoos; utter cesspools of debauchery."

Lewis is a prosecutor for Florida's Ninth Judicial Circuit, which includes Orlando, and, more widely, Orange and Osceola counties. Lewis prosecuted major felony and homicide cases, according to CNN affiliate WFTV.

His employer, the State Attorney's Office, suspended Lewis on Friday on suspicion of violating the social media policy, according to a statement. Lewis had signed a social media policy, which is part of the state attorney's office code of conduct, Ninth Judicial Circuit public information officer Angela Starke said.

"Failure to comply can result in discipline up to and including termination," the statement says.

http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/18/us/florida-prosecutor-orlando-comments/index.html

Not too bright I guess

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1. And I don't want to hear any right-wingers yammering about this guy's "freedom of speech".

Unless he's thrown in jail by the Federal government for his comments, his free-speech rights have not been infringed.

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2. Geez

Go to college, go to law school, get a good job as a prosecutor and still you can't stay the heck off Facebook with your bigotry? You deserve firing.