Palmetto Bay's vice mayor has vowed to halt the village council's usual business at its Monday meeting until a councilman who made controversial comments about the assassination of Charlie Kirk resigns.

In a since-deleted post on social media, Councilman Steve Cody called Kirk's assassination "a fitting sacrifice" with a graphic of the activist’s 2023 remarks that “it’s worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year” for Second Amendment rights.

"Charlie Kirk is a fitting sacrifice to our Lords: Smith & Wesson. Hallowed be their names," Cody wrote.

Cody has since taken down the post and said he regretted it.

"What I did was admittedly stupid," he said.

Large crowds are expected to attend Palmetto Bay's council meeting on Monday night, where the vice ma

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