A community outreach worker in Mayor Brandon Johnson’s press office has been suspended without pay for ten days for claiming that conservative activist Charlie Kirk “got what he wished for” when he was gunned down on a college campus in Utah.
“I’m not mourning a racist, bigoted, xenophobic clown like him who hated me and mine,” Johnson press aide Anton P. Adkins wrote this week on his personal Facebook account.
“But, I understand there’s a majority culture that someone of yall [sic] desire to please and are fooled into think his passion of Christianity wasn’t more than ensure his check got cleared.”
Adkins, who makes $76,824 a year, could not be reached for comment.
The mayor’s office called the posting “inflammatory and offensive,” and said Adkins has “apologized publicly” and deleted