Marine ordered off recruiting duty over post celebrating Charlie Kirk assassination: 'Another racist man popped'
A Chicago-based Marine Corps recruiter was stood down Thursday after he appeared to post a meme celebrating the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. "Another racist man popped," read the post by Capt. Jacoby Williamson alongside images of Kirk, who was shot and killed Wednesday while speaking on the campus of Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah. Screenshots of Williamson's account were later posted on Reddit. "The Marine Corps takes this type of allegation seriously,” Capt. Austin Gallegos, a spokesman for the Corps’ Western Recruiting Region, told Task & Purpose Thursday. “The Marine in question has been relieved of his...