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ESPN -host Stephen A. Smith spoke against people who openly celebrate the murder of Charlie Kirk.
During an episode of his podcast on Thursday, Smith aggressively condemned anyone who celebrated Kirk’s killing.
“I don’t care what his political beliefs were! I didn’t care what he felt!” Smith added that he felt pain for Kirk and his family. “That he is dead at the age of 31. That his wife is a widow. That his children are Farlose because his ideas and his faith differ from another, apparently.”
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“And then I go online and I see people celebrating it!” he continued. “Shame! Shame you!”
Smith also praised New York Yankees to honor Kirk on Wednesday night prior to the game against the Detroit Tigers. Yankees held a moment of silence for Kirk and showed a picture of him in the stadium Jumbotron.
“Props to the New York Yankees organization last night to have a moment of silence,” Smith said. “We shouldn’t condonate things like this. We shouldn’t say it’s okay. I’m not giving a dn who you are, black, white or something in between!”
Smith added that he hopes the FBI finds the suspect.
“I hope the FBI and the law enforcement catch this person and do what to do with him.”
A transient Team USA BMX cyclist made a number of social media posts on Wednesday celebrating the murder. Chelsea Wolfe, who was present for the American woman’s BMX Team at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021 as an alternative, made the festive positions at the athlete’s Instagram story.
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Consequences have affected other people who have made controversial comments in the wake of Kirk’s death.
MSNBC fired the political analyst Matthew Dowd for suggesting “hateful” rhetoric from Kirk led to his own assault, Pakinomist reported Digital earlier.
Carolina Panthers fired Charlie Rock, a member of the team’s communications department, after social media posts attached to Rock seemed to show him to question why people were sad that Kirk had been shot and killed. The song “Protect Ya Neck” from the Wu-Tang clan was also shared.
“The views that our employees express are their own and do not represent the views of Carolina Panthers,” the team said in a statement sent to social media. “We do not condon violence of any kind. We take this case very seriously and have consequently treated it with the individual.”
Kirk, the founder of Turning Point USA, was hit by a single ball around 10 p.m. 12.20 local time on campus on campus Utah Valley University in Orem Wednesday. The 31-year-old was surrounded by mostly university students when his event was underway.
Authorities have not yet published a suspect in the shooting. However, officials offered more details about the person they are after at a news conference on Thursday morning.
Charlie Kirk and Stephen A. Smith (Getty Images)
The FBI special agent with responsibility Robert Bohls and the Utah Department of Public Safety Commissions Beau Mason said they had been given “good video recordings” of the shooter while at Utah Valley University Campus.
Investigators added that they believe the suspect is “in the university age.”
The study of the murder of Kirk is still ongoing.
