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ESPN presenter Stephen A. Smith spoke against people who openly celebrate the murder of Charlie Kirk.
During an episode of his podcast on Thursday, Smith aggressively condemned anyone who celebrated Kirk’s murder.
“I don’t care what their political beliefs were! I don’t care what I felt!” Smith added that he felt pain for Kirk and his family. “That he is dead at the age of 31. That his wife is a widow. That his children have no father because his ideas and beliefs differ from someone else, apparently.”
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“And then I’m online, and I’m seeing people celebrating it!” He continued. “What a shame! What shame!”
Smith also praised the New York Yankees for honoring Kirk on Wednesday night before the game against Detroit’s Tigers. The Yankees maintained a moment of silence for Kirk, and showed an image of him at the Jumbotron stadium.
“Last night of accessories to the New York Yankees organization for having a moment of silence,” said Smith. “We must not tolerate things like this. We must not say that it is fine.
Smith added that he expects the FBI to find the suspect.
“I hope that the FBI and the application of the law catch this individual and do what you have to do with it.”
A transgender cyclist of the US team. UU. BMX made a series of social networks publications on Wednesday celebrating the murder. Chelsea Wolfe, who was present for the US Women Instagram story.
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The consequences have happened to other people who have made controversial comments after Kirk’s death.
MSNBC fired political analyst Matthew Dowd for suggesting Kirk’s “odious” rhetoric led to his own murder, Pak Gazette Digital previously reported.
The Carolina Panthers fired Charlie Rock, a member of the team’s communications department, after publications on social networks linked to rock seemed to show him by 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.”
Kirk, the founder of Turning Point USA, was hit by a single bullet around 12:20 pm local time on the campus of Utah Valley University 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.
Charlie Kirk and Stephen A. Smith (Getty images)
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 research is still ongoing.
