A woman has resigned from her job after a sarcasm-laden rant following the deaths of five people in a Christmas parade rampage.
Mary Lemanski has now resigned from her position with the Democratic Party in DuPage County after her comments were widely shared, Anne Sommerkamp, the organisation’s executive director, told Fox News in an email.
The social media director began her online tirade by snarkily dismissing the tragedy as “just self-defence.”
“It was probably just self-defence,” Ms Lemanski wrote in a tweet that appears to have since been deleted, the New York Post reported.
“Living in Wisconsin, he probably felt threatened,” another tweet read — referring to the driver, Darrell E Brooks, who is facing five counts of first-degree homicide over the Waukesha incident, which left five people facing and dozens hurt.
“I’m sure he didn’t want to hurt anyone. He came to help people,” she added in her sarcasm-laced missive.
Ms Lemanski, who also listed herself as an acting student with the famed Second City improvisational comedy group in Chicago, also wrote that the Christmas parade rampage was “karma” in another tweet that appears to have since been deleted.
“I’m sad anytime anyone dies. I just believe in Karma and this came around quick on the citizens of Wisconsin,” Ms Lemanski wrote, according to Fox News.
“You reap what you sow. It’s sad people died, but when you open the door to vigilante justice, everyone seems threatening.”
Ms Lemanski appeared to be mocking Mr Rittenhouse’s self-defence claim before the 18-year-old was acquitted Friday of charges of homicide, attempted homicide and reckless endangerment in the deaths of Joseph Rosenbaum, 36, and Anthony Huber, 26, and the wounding of Gaige Grosskreutz, 27, on Aug. 25, 2020.
On Monday morning, Ms Lemanski said in a tweet: “I’m going to Hell because I already made a deal with the Devil that nobody else on Earth will go to Hell if I go.
“So, you’re welcome.”
Ms Lemanski then posted the link to a report in The Hill about NAACP president Derrick Johnson calling the acquittal a “warning shot that vigilante justice is allowed.”
She wrote: “Oh look! I was right! NAACP president calls Rittenhouse verdict ‘a warning shot that vigilante justice is allowed.”
Her comments were blasted online.
“Seriously how does it feel to completely flush your career down the toilet via tweet? Was it fun?” one user wrote.
“What career. She’s yeah and will always be. The entire country will see her tweets tomorrow and she will never recover,” another said.
A third user wrote: “I hope you never know the pain of losing a child. I hope the parents of those lost today in Waukesha never know you. I feel sad for both you and them.”
And yet another one said: “I don’t understand how you can be this hateful and glib. I was going to pray for the families of those who were killed tonight. But I will add you into my prayers as well. I think you could use some.”
On November 15, Ms Lemanski wrote on Facebook about a “white wing group” trying to prevent her from speaking at a school board meeting.
She later accused the group of being “fascists” who shut down “all opposing viewpoints.”
This article originally appeared on The New York Post and was reproduced with permission.
– with staff writers
Originally published as Woman blasted for calling Wisconsin Christmas parade rampage ‘karma’
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