Maryland State Official Fired For Supporting Kenosha Shooting Suspect On Facebook

Maryland Gov. Larry Hogans (R) administration dismissed a top official for a series of social media posts in which he expressed his support for the teen suspect in last weeks Kenosha, Wisconsin, shootings.

Arthur Mac Love IV had served as deputy director of the Governors Office of Community Initiatives since 2015.

On Saturday, screenshots of posts that Love had reportedly made to a Facebook group called Inside Maryland Politics under the name Mac Love began circulating on Twitter and other social media platforms.

According to the Baltimore Sun , one of Loves posts showed an image of Kenosha shooting suspect Kyle Rittenhouse cleaning graffiti with the caption, Im grateful that conservatives are rallying behind this kid. He genuinely seems like a good person.

On Twitter, Maryland State Delegate Eric Luedtke (D) called for Loves firing Saturday alongside a screenshot of one of the offending posts.

This is one of the FB posts by Governor Hogan's Deputy Director of Community Initiatives.

Who oversees - I'm not kidding - the Commission on African American History and Culture.

Fire him, @GovLarryHogan, and issue the Exec Order on use of force you should've issued months ago. pic.twitter.com/uNh62cAbtD

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This is one of the FB posts by Governor Hogan's Deputy Director of Community Initiatives.

Who oversees - I'm not kidding - the Commission on African American History and Culture.

Fire him, @GovLarryHogan , and issue the Exec Order on use of force you should've issued months ago. pic.twitter.com/uNh62cAbtD
Delegate Eric Luedtke (@EricLuedtke) August 29, 2020

Steve McAdams, who is the executive director for the Governors Office of Community Initiatives, confirmed in a Monday email sent to HuffPost that hed relieved Love of his duties over the weekend.

These divisive images and statements are inconsistent with the mission and core values of the Office of Community Initiatives, McAdams said.

Kevin Craft, who has served administrative director of the Governors Commission on African Affairs, would assume Loves duties effective immediately, he added.

Shareese Churchill, a spokeswoman for Hogan, echoed those sentiments in a separate statement also sent to HuffPost.

These posts are obviously totally inappropriate, she wrote. We fully support the immediate actions taken by Director McAdams to address this matter.

Speaking to The Washington Post Sunday, Love said hed first learned about his termination through cable news before receiving official word that morning, but otherwise declined to comment.

Theres a lot more to say and that Id love to say, he said. But I dont know if Im allowed to.

Rittenhouse, 17, was arrested last week after allegedly opening fire on a group of protesters responding to the police shooting of Jacob Blake , a Black Wisconsin man. The Illinois native faces multiple felony charges , including first-degree murder, in the deaths of Anthony Huber, 26, and Joseph Rosenbaum , 36.

Gaige Grosskreutz, 26, was also allegedly shot in the arm by Rittenhouse, but is expected to survive.