Republican official Dan Adamini apologizes, resigns after calling for 'another Kent State'

https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2017/0206/Republican-official-Dan-Adamini-apologizes-after-calling-for-another-Kent-State

Gretel Kauffman, Christian Science Monitor
February 6, 2017

A Republican official has apologized for calling for "another Kent State" massacre in response to recent university protests.

Dan Adamini, the secretary of the Marquette County Republican Party in Michigan, tweeted that he was "sorry" for a pair of social media posts in which he referenced the infamous fatal 1970 shooting of four unarmed college students by National Guardsmen during an anti-Vietnam War protest, and suggested that a similar incident might be the "only solution" to modern-day protests at the University of California, Berkeley, and elsewhere.

"Violent protesters who shut down free speech? Time for another Kent State, perhaps," Mr. Adamini wrote in a tweet last Thursday. "One bullet stops a lot of thuggery." In a similar Facebook post, he added, "They do it because they know there are no consequences yet."

The posts, which have since been deleted, received widespread backlash, and were quickly condemned by Kent State University and the Michigan Democratic Party.

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https://www.freep.com/story/news/politics/2017/02/09/michigan-republican-resigns-protester-tweets/97686534/

Associated Press Published 9:31 a.m. ET Feb. 9, 2017 | Updated 9:41 a.m. ET Feb. 9, 2017

A Michigan Republican has resigned after causing outrage by suggesting that protesters at University of California, Berkeley, should be shot.

Dan Adamini, secretary of the Marquette County GOP, told the Mining Journal of Marquette he stepped down so he isn’t “a distraction and a hindrance to the work of the party.”