APALACHICOLA, Fla. – During a news conference on Wednesday, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis voiced his support for firing teachers, nurses and other workers for celebrating the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.

“I’m thinking to myself, ‘Look, buddy: politically, I would never think it would be good for something like that to happen,’” he stated. “It’s not good for, obviously, the victim and the family. It’s not good for society for this stuff to happen. So to be out there cheering — it was a real problem.”

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The issue popped up in the state after Florida Education Commissioner Anastasios Kamoutsas announced last week that he’d learned of some educators in the state who had posted “ despicable comments ” online regarding Kirk’s death.

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