CLEVELAND — Cleveland Mayor Justin Bibb has placed the city's top firefighter, Anthony Luke, on leave for making a social media post that showed an image of an assault rifle with a caption stating: "Bring out the next sacrifice!!"

Luke will remain on paid administrative leave while the city conducts an investigation.

Bibb issued the following statement, in part, regarding Luke's social media post.

"This post romanticizes gun violence, a matter far too serious in a city where we mourn too many families every week, too many lives cut short, and too many children denied safe sleep in their beds.

I firmly believe in free speech, and the First Amendment protects every individual’s right to express opinions—even those that are unpopular, provocative, or difficult to hear. But with rights com

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