Omaha radio personality fired after offensive tweet, calls it a 'boomer Twitter moment'
OMAHA -- Omaha radio personality Chris Baker was fired Wednesday after posting an offensive tweet about the Derek Chauvin verdict.
C. Taylor Walet III, area president for iHeartRadio in Nebraska, said Wednesday that Baker had been fired from KFAB that afternoon.
Baker's tweet was "completely inappropriate and unacceptable," Walet said in a statement. "Please know that this does not represent our viewpoint or our values, and we take this situation very seriously. Accordingly, Chris Bakers employment with our company has been terminated."
The tweet, posted soon after the former Minneapolis police officer was found guilty in the murder of George Floyd, who was Black, featured a GIF (file image) of four Black men wearing loincloths and body paint and dancing, possibly with spears in front of them. Above the picture was the proclamation: Guilty!
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