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NFL Team Fires Employee Over Charlie Kirk Post

The Carolina Panthers said “we do not condone violence” in an X post this morning.

The Carolina Panthers fired an employee on Thursday due to a social media post regarding the fatal shooting of Charlie Kirk. Charlie Rock, a football communications coordinator for the team, posted an image of Kirk on his personal Instagram along with text that read, “Why are yall sad? Your man said it was worth it ...,” just hours after the Conservative activist was killed in Utah. Rock’s statement was a possible reference to an April 2023 quote from Kirk, in which he said, “I think it’s worth it to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights.” The NFL team posted on X Thursday that “the views expressed by our employees are their own.” Rock started with the football organization in 2024 as an intern in the same department, and had recently been promoted to a full-time position, The Charlotte Observer reported. A source briefed on the decision confirmed the firing to the Daily Beast.