Suspended Florida Official Kenneth Lewis Fired Over Anti-Orlando Facebook Post
Jun 25 2016, 12:08 am ET
http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/orlando-nightclub-massacre/suspended-florida-official-kenneth-lewis-fired-over-anti-orlando-facebook-n598806?cid=sm_fbThe Florida assistant state attorney who was suspended for posting an offensive rant about Orlando in the hours following the massacre at a nightclub in the city has been fired, Florida's state attorney said Thursday.
"Downtown Orlando has no bottom. ... 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," Kenneth Lewis wrote on his Facebook page, hours after 49 were killed at the city's Pulse nightclub.
Disciplinary documents filed by the state attorney's office, revealed that Lewis wrote a second post a couple hours later that read: "All Orlando nightclubs should be permanently closed. With or without random gunmen they are zoos, utter cesspools of debauchery."
Lewis was suspended last Friday, pending an investigation into the posts. Florida State Attorney Jeff Ashton said that the investigation had one purpose: to find out whether Lewis wrote the posts. Once Lewis admitted to penning the comments himself, Ashton said he decided to fire him.
Lewis was temporarily reassigned and forced to undergo sensitivity training in 2014 after posting an insulting comment about Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor and a Mother's Day message that read in part: "Happy Mother's Day to all the crack hoes out there. It' never too late to turn it around, tie your tubes, clean up your life and make difference to someone out there that deserves a better mother."
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