A prosecutor in Harris County, Texas, resigned on Monday after she was criticized for sharing a Facebook post that seemed to compare demonstrators for racial justice to Nazis who “tore down statues” and “banned free speech.”The post was not written by the prosecutor, Kaylynn Williford, but came from a Facebook page that has criticized the Black Lives Matter movement and praised President Trump. It included a black-and-white photograph of wedding rings and a caption that said the rings had been “removed from Holocaust victims prior to being executed.”“Never forget, Nazis tore down statues,” the caption said. “Banned free speech. Sound familiar?”Those words seemed to evoke recent demonstrations for racial justice following the killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade and others at the hands of the police. The protests have often been accompanied by demands to remove Confederate statues and other monuments that demonstrators see as symbols of white supremacy.

Source: New York Times June 29, 2020 21:00 UTC