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Melbourne's mayor proposed renaming a street to Charlie Kirk Lane following Kirk's recent death.
The proposed street section is where a business owner made controversial remarks about Kirk.
Mayor Paul Alfrey compared the proposal to his past effort to rename a road for Martin Luther King Jr.
Melbourne Mayor wants to rename a street in Eau Gallie to Charlie Kirk Lane, after the slain conservative activist.
The stretch of Cypress Avenue that he wants to rename is the block where Lamb & Co. Fishmongers is located. The company's owner Kaili Lamb commented in a since-deleted social media post a few days after Kirk's assassination "Sorry, not sorry what a f@#%ing douche" with the expletive spelled out.
"It was a terrible mistake," Lamb told FLORIDA TODAY of her post,
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