GOP Leader Forced to Resign After Tweeting “It’s Time for Another Kent State”

Adamini then gave his post more thought and reworded it for Facebook. His second post still called for violence and evoked the Kent State shootings.

“The violent protests at our universities certainly indicate Portage acacian at the lower level. I’m thinking another Kent State might be the only solution. Protest stopped after only one death. They do it because they know there are no consequences yet,” Adamini said.

In an interview with Free Press, Adamini apologized, saying he was actually intending to stop violence with his posts rather than incite it. In other words, Adamini was trying to make threats so protesters would submit out of fear of being shot, as students have been in the past.

“It was stupid, it was poorly done. But my goal was to stop the violence by protesters, not commit violence against protesters. The point I was trying to make, admittedly I did it very poorly … was that the violence is really getting out of hand, and much like in the 1960s, the violence created an atmosphere where something terrible and tragic like Kent State could happen. I’d like to see the violence stop before we have a tragedy,” Adamini said.

Kent State University responded to the controversy with a statement calling the social media posts “abhorrent.” The statement read:

“May 4, 1970, was a watershed moment for the country and especially the Kent State University family. We lost four students that day while nine others were wounded and countless others were changed forever. This abhorrent post is in poor taste and trivializes a loss of life that still pains the Kent State community today. We invite the person who wrote this statement to tour our campus and our May 4 Visitors Center, which opened four years ago, to gain perspective on what happened 47 years ago and apply its meaning to the future.”

Adamini’s talk radio show In the Right Mind has been suspended for at least the rest of the month.

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