By Katie Reilly
A top homicide prosecutor in the Orange-Osceola State Attorney’s has been suspended after he criticized club goers in Facebook posts hours after the Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando.
Kenneth Lewis, an assistant state attorney, called nightclub patrons “3rd world miscreants and ghetto thugs,” the Orlando Sentinel reported.
“All Orlando nightclubs should be permanently closed. With our without random gunmen they are zoos,; utter cesspools of debauchery,” Lewis wrote in a second post.
Lewis violated the office’s social media policy and has been suspended for the content of two Facebook posts, according to the Sentinel.
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