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The Carolina Panthers fired an employee who made insensitive publications on social networks on Thursday after the murder of the influential conservative Charlie Kirk.
Charlie Rock, a member of the team’s communications department, was the dismissed employee, an informed source on the decision of the Panthers confirmed to Pak Gazette Digital.
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Publications on social networks linked to rock seemed to show him questioning why people were sad that Kirk had been shot dead. The song “Protect Ya Neck” of the Wu-Tang clan was also shared.
“The opinions expressed by our employees are their own and do not represent those of the Carolina Panthers,” the team said in a statement published on social networks. “We do not tolerate the violence of any kind. We are taking this matter very seriously and, consequently, we have addressed it with the individual.”
Rock was far from being the first person to lose his job for making fun of Kirk’s murder.
MSNBC fired analyst Matthew Dowd for his “unacceptable” comments about Kirk immediately after the shooting. The network previously denounced the comments that Dowd made in the air.
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“During our last minute news coverage of Charlie Kirk’s shooting, Matthew Dowd made comments that were inappropriate, insensitive and unacceptable,” said MSNBC president, Rebecca Kutler, in a statement. “We apologize for his statements, like him. There is no place for violence in the United States, political or other.”
Kirk, the founder of Turning Point Usa, was beaten by a single bullet around 12:20 pm local time at the Utah Valley University campus in OREM on Wednesday. The 31 -year -old was mostly surrounded by university students when his event was starting.
The authorities have not yet publicly identified a suspect in the shooting. However, officials offered more details about the person looking at a press conference on Thursday morning.
The FBI special agent in charge Robert Bohls and the commissioner of the Department of Public Security of Utah, Beau Mason, said they had obtained “good video images” from the shooter while on the campus of the University of Utah Valley.
The researchers added that they believe that the suspect is “university age.”
Kirk’s murder was still ongoing.
