Fla. Assistant State Attorney Fired Over Anti-Orlando Facebook Post Slams Dismissal

"The founding fathers would turn in their graves," Lewis tweeted of his firing.

ByABC News
June 26, 2016, 3:17 AM
Kenneth Lewis, an assistant state attorney in the Office of State Attorney Ninth Judicial Circuit, was suspended June 17, 2016, after writing a post that slammed Orlando, following the Pulse Nightclub terror attack.
Kenneth Lewis, an assistant state attorney in the Office of State Attorney Ninth Judicial Circuit, was suspended June 17, 2016, after writing a post that slammed Orlando, following the Pulse Nightclub terror attack.
WFTV

— -- The Florida assistant state attorney who was fired last week after writing a derogatory Facebook post about Orlando -- less than 24 hours after the Pulse nightclub massacre -- has taken to social media again.

This time, to slam the state attorney's office for terminating him.

"I just got fired for a Facebook post after 20 years as a prosecutor," Kenneth Lewis tweeted. "The founding fathers would turn in their graves. God help this country!"

In a subsequent tweet -- in which Lewis linked to a copy of a letter he submitted to state attorney Jeff Ashton -- he wrote, "So you think u know someone by 1 private Facebook posts to their friends? Reality testing questions never answered."

According to ABC Orlando affiliate WFTV, Lewis wrote on his Facebook page, "Downtown Orlando has no bottom. The entire city should be leveled. It is void of any redeeming quality...It is void of culture. If you live down there you do it at your own risk and at your own peril."

At the time of his suspension, a spokeswoman for the State Attorney's Office said Lewis' post violated its social media policy.

And in a letter written Thursday by Ashton announcing Lewis' termination, Ashton wrote, "Whether you intended to convey that all those who attend nightclubs are animals (the zoo reference) or whether the reference to 'debauchery' was meant to express some objection to the lifestyle choices of those who attended this club, we will never know. I cannot believe that a man of your intelligence would not realize that your comment could bear that interpretation."

Ashton continued, "I can no longer defend you as a prosecutor free of bias. Therefore the recommendation of termination is also upheld. You shall remain on suspension until June 30, 2016 at which time your employment with this office will be terminated."