The Secret Service put an employee on leave who made an inflammatory social media post about conservative icon Charlie Kirk after the 31-year-old was tragically assassinated on Wednesday, bashing those who are mourning his death.

Anthony Pough, an employee of the protective agency, had shared a clip of Kirk suggesting that Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, former Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas), and others were “affirmative action picks” because they “weren’t smart enough to get in on their own.”

“If you are Mourning [sic] this guy .. delete me. He spewed hate and racism on his show,” Pough wrote in a Facebook post on Thursday, first reported by RealClearPolitics .

“Especially when we should be mourning the innocent children killed in Colorado,” he added, referring to

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