DETROIT, MI – Wayne County assistant prosecutor Teana Walsh resigned Friday afternoon after news of a controversial Facebook post broke Thursday night.
Walsh said in a Monday night Facebook post that those rioting in Baltimore should be shot.
“This afternoon Assistant Prosecutor Teana Walsh called Prosecutor Kym Worthy to announce that she is voluntarily resigning her position with the Wayne County Prosecutor’s Office. Prosecutor Worthy has accepted her resignation,” Assistant Prosecutor Maria Miller said in a statement.
The statement also said that Walsh was “been known for her great work ethic and her compassion for victims of crime and their families.”
The post that caused Walsh to resign read: “So I am watching the news in Baltimore and see large swarms of people throwing bricks, etc at police who are fleeing from their assaults … 15 in the hospital already. Solution. Simple. Shoot em. Period. End of discussion. I don’t care what causes the protestors to turn violent…what the “they did it because” reason is…no way is this acceptable. Flipping disgusting,” according to Fox 2, which broke the story.
According to the prosecutor’s office, the post wasn’t online for very long.