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Florida official suspended for Facebook rant following Orlando massacre [View all]
Source: KHSB-TV
Florida official suspended for Facebook rant following Orlando massacre
BY: Justin Boggs
POSTED: 1:57 PM, Jun 18, 2016
Assistant State Attorney Kenneth Lewis has been suspended from his post after publishing a Facebook post that called the city of Orlando a "national embarrassment." according to WESH-TV in Orlando, Fla.
The announcement was handed down Friday by the State's Attorney Office following a post that was published on Lewis' Facebook on Sunday. Lewis' post came hours after 49 people were killed, and dozens more injured by a Florida gunman who said he sympathized with the Islamic State group.
The post violated the office's social media policy.
WESH reported this is not the first time that Lewis has been in trouble for an online message. Lewis was reassigned in 2014 for a comment wishing a happy Mother's Day to "crack hoes."
"Downtown Orlando has no bottom," Lewis' Facebook post said. "The entire city should be leveled. It is void of a single redeeming quality. It is a melting pot of 3rd world miscreants and ghetto thugs. It is void of culture. If you live down there you do it at your own risk and at your own peril. If you go down there after dark there is seriously something wrong with you.
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BY: Justin Boggs
POSTED: 1:57 PM, Jun 18, 2016
Assistant State Attorney Kenneth Lewis has been suspended from his post after publishing a Facebook post that called the city of Orlando a "national embarrassment." according to WESH-TV in Orlando, Fla.
The announcement was handed down Friday by the State's Attorney Office following a post that was published on Lewis' Facebook on Sunday. Lewis' post came hours after 49 people were killed, and dozens more injured by a Florida gunman who said he sympathized with the Islamic State group.
The post violated the office's social media policy.
WESH reported this is not the first time that Lewis has been in trouble for an online message. Lewis was reassigned in 2014 for a comment wishing a happy Mother's Day to "crack hoes."
"Downtown Orlando has no bottom," Lewis' Facebook post said. "The entire city should be leveled. It is void of a single redeeming quality. It is a melting pot of 3rd world miscreants and ghetto thugs. It is void of culture. If you live down there you do it at your own risk and at your own peril. If you go down there after dark there is seriously something wrong with you.
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Read more: http://www.kshb.com/news/national/florida-official-suspended-for-facebook-rant-following-orlando-massacre
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Source: ABC News
Florida Assistant State Attorney Suspended for Controversial Facebook Post Following Orlando Attack
By DAVID CAPLAN Jun 18, 2016, 5:20 AM ET
A Florida assistant state attorney has been suspended after writing a Facebook post that denigrated the city of Orlando following the Pulse nightclub terror attack, the state attorney's office announced Friday night.
"Downtown Orlando has no bottom," Assistant State Attorney Kenneth Lewis wrote on his Facebook page last Sunday evening -- less than 24 hours after the tragedy -- according to ABC Orlando affiliate WFTV. "The entire city should be leveled. It is void of any redeeming quality...It is void of culture. If you live down there you do it at your own risk and at your own peril." The post continued to paint Orlando and its residents in a negative light.
A spokeswoman for the State Attorney's Office, Angela Starke, said Lewis' post violated its social media policy.
"Kenneth Lewis, an Assistant State Attorney in the Office of State Attorney Ninth Judicial Circuit, was suspended today pending further review," Starke said in a statement.
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By DAVID CAPLAN Jun 18, 2016, 5:20 AM ET
A Florida assistant state attorney has been suspended after writing a Facebook post that denigrated the city of Orlando following the Pulse nightclub terror attack, the state attorney's office announced Friday night.
"Downtown Orlando has no bottom," Assistant State Attorney Kenneth Lewis wrote on his Facebook page last Sunday evening -- less than 24 hours after the tragedy -- according to ABC Orlando affiliate WFTV. "The entire city should be leveled. It is void of any redeeming quality...It is void of culture. If you live down there you do it at your own risk and at your own peril." The post continued to paint Orlando and its residents in a negative light.
A spokeswoman for the State Attorney's Office, Angela Starke, said Lewis' post violated its social media policy.
"Kenneth Lewis, an Assistant State Attorney in the Office of State Attorney Ninth Judicial Circuit, was suspended today pending further review," Starke said in a statement.
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Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/US/florida-assistant-state-attorney-suspended-controversial-facebook-post/story?id=39954404
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