UPDATE: Friday, May 23 @ 4:14pm Eastern: NBC reports that Lewis “apologized Thursday for social media posts that included him referring to drug addicts as “crack hoes” and suggesting that Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s appointment was due to affirmative action.” He went on to state that “he thought that his posts from May 11 and May 6 were only to his friends network on the social website, and not visible to the general public. He said he doesn’t believe his comments affect his ability to be an impartial prosecutor.” However, all the questionable posts remain on his page.
A Florida prosecutor is under fire for a series of comments he posted on his Facebook page.
Florida’s WKMG reports that Assistant State Attorney Kenneth Lewis posted a message on May 3 suggesting that Supreme Court Justice Sonya Sotomayor would be working at McDonald’s if it were not for Affirmative Action.
In that instance, Lewis posted a photograph of Justice Sotomayor with the following caption:
“Reason enough why no country should ever engage in the practice of Affirmative Action again. This could be the result. Where would she be if she didn’t hit the quota lottery? Here’s a hint: “Would you like to supersize that sir?”
He then followed that up on May 11 with what he characterized as an “inspirational” Mothers’ Day message:
“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.”
WKMG goes on to report that “Following another news article about a 19-year-old arrested for breaking into a home, Lewis’s Facebook page reads, ‘They should have shot him in the head, anyone that invades another home in a violent manner should be executed on the spot.'”
Additional posts criticize Presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush, Jacksonville State Attorney Angela Corey’s handling of the George Zimmerman case, and the State of Florida, which is described as having a “constant flooding of the lowest common denominator from third world nations.”
Asked about the postings, Orange-Osceola State Attorney Jeff Ashton stated: “I have been made aware of certain statements attributed to Assistant State Attorney Kenneth Lewis on social media. I do not agree with the political sentiments expressed by him and I find some of the words he chose to be both offensive and dehumanizing.”
According to WKMG, Ashton’s office lacks any policy regarding the use of social media and Ashton related that “Political speech is protected by the first amendment of the United States Constitution and I do not police the private thoughts, views or expressions of those in my employ.”
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