The Carolina Panthers have reportedly fired a high-ranking employee over insensitive posts he made regarding the murder of Charlie Kirk.
According to the Charlotte Observer’s Scott Fowler, Charlie Rock – who worked as Carolina’s Football Communications Coordinator – has been dismissed by the team over the posts in question.
Trump ally Kirk was shot and killed while speaking at a Q&A event for Turning Point USA – the conservative nonprofit organization he founded back in 2012 – at Utah Valley University on Wednesday, with his assassination sending shockwaves across the world.
Images circulating on social media appear to show that Rock shared a video of Kirk claiming that ‘it’s worth to have a cost of unfortunately some gun deaths every single year’ in order to protect Second Amendment rights and wrote himself: ‘Why are yall sad? Your man said it was worth it…’
Another screenshot also shows his Instagram account posting the song ‘Protect Ya Neck’ by the Wu-Tang Clan on his story after Kirk was fatally shot in the neck on Wednesday.
The Panthers said in a statement on Thursday: ‘The views expressed by our employees are their own and do not represent those of the Carolina Panthers. We do not condone violence of any kind.
‘We are taking this matter very seriously and have accordingly addressed it with the individual.’
More to follow.
