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Socially Inept

“I just got fired for a Facebook post after 20 years as a prosecutor,” grumped former Assistant State Attorney Ken Lewis on social media. Two years ago, Lewis, assigned to the state’s Orlando, Fla., office, made a Mother’s Day Facebook post with derogatory comments about women. That led to sensitivity training — and a new department social media policy. On the morning of the Orlando nightclub mass shooting, Lewis posted his thoughts that Orlando “should be leveled. It is void of a single redeeming quality” as it’s “a melting pot of 3rd world miscreants and ghetto thugs.” Further, he declared, “If you go down there after dark there is seriously something wrong with you.” Orange-Osceola State Attorney Jeff Ashton suspended and then fired Lewis. “Frankly, short of a bona fide claim of mental illness,” Ashton said in a letter to Lewis, “there was little you could say that would have changed my mind.” (MS/WESH Orlando) ...Because that level of mental illness would have been fine for a Florida prosecutor.