A Hamilton County assistant prosecutor has formally resigned after his social media posts about the killing of Charlie Kirk were flagged by a conservative-leaning X profile and then widely shared.
Signal 99 Cincinnati post highlighting a social media post by now-former Hamilton County Assistant Prosecutor Ryan Nelson.
Ryan Nelson resigned in an email sent Friday, Sept. 26.
Nelson, 54, had been head of the office’s municipal court division. According to his resignation letter, he was placed on administrative leave on Sept. 15.
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In the social media post, Nelson said that Kirk “essentially gave us all permission to shrug at his death, from his disbelief in human empathy to his stated views that suggest his death as a result of gun violence is a necessary price to pay for liberty.”
In his resignation letter, Nelson called it a private post that was “not intended to be shared with the general public.”
This story will be updated.
This article originally appeared on Cincinnati Enquirer: Assistant prosecutor resigns after Charlie Kirk social media posts
