{"id":360469,"date":"2025-09-11T21:34:18","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T21:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/360469\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T21:34:18","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T21:34:18","slug":"panthers-fire-staffer-over-insensitive-post-after-charlie-kirks-assassination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/360469\/","title":{"rendered":"Panthers fire staffer over insensitive post after Charlie Kirk’s assassination"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Carolina Panthers have fired a member of their communications department due to an \u201cinsensitive social media post\u201d following the fatal shooting of conservative activist Charlie Kirk <\/a>on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

The Charlotte Observer reported Thursday morning<\/a> that Charlie Rock, a football communications coordinator, had been let go in the wake of the post, citing a source.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe views expressed by our employees are their own and do not represent those of the Carolina Panthers. We do not condone violence of any kind. We are taking this matter very seriously and have accordingly addressed it with the individual,\u201d the Panthers said<\/a> in a statement posted Thursday morning on X.<\/p>\n

The Panthers fired Charlie Rock over a post he made about Charlie Kirk\u2019s assassination. linkedin\/charles-rock<\/p>\n

Charlie Kirk is shot at Utah Valley University on Sept. 10, 2025.<\/p>\n

Conservative activist Charlie Kirk was shot dead on Sept. 10, 2025. Getty Images<\/p>\n

A number of X users tagged the Panthers on the social media platform with purported screenshots of the post, which featured an image of Kirk and the message, \u201cWhy are yall sad? Your man said it was worth it \u2026\u201d A second slide allegedly featured the song, \u201cProtect Ya Neck,\u201d by the Wu-Tang Clan.<\/p>\n

Kirk, the co-founder of Turning Point USA, was shot and killed Wednesday while speaking at an outdoor event at Utah Valley University. The father of two was 31 years old.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Great, and even Legendary, Charlie Kirk, is dead. No one understood or had the Heart of the Youth in the United States of America better than Charlie,\u201d\u00a0President Trump wrote Wednesday in a message on Truth Social.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was loved and admired by ALL, especially me, and now, he is no longer with us. Melania and my Sympathies go out to his beautiful wife Erika, and family. Charlie, we love you!\u201d<\/p>\n

The conservative activist had been speaking at Utah Valley University when he was shot. AP<\/p>\n

Charlie Kirk AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n

Kirk was honored Wednesday night by the Yankees, who held a moment of silence<\/a> ahead of their 11-1 loss to the Tigers.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Trump, set to be in attendance for Thursday\u2019s game in the Bronx on the 24th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, announced Kirk will receive<\/a> the Presidential Medal of Freedom posthumously. <\/p>\n

A rifle has since been recovered<\/a> in the hunt for Kirk\u2019s assassin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Carolina Panthers have fired a member of their communications department due to an \u201cinsensitive social media post\u201d…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":360470,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[260,58365,7,6,9],"class_list":{"0":"post-360469","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-carolina-panthers","9":"tag-charlie-kirk","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-nfl","12":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115187815466189523","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=360469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/360470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}