Texas Firefighter Fired After Writing Dylan Roof 'Needs To Be Praised For The Good Deed He Has Done'

A Texas firefighter has lost his volunteer position after reportedly writing on Facebook that alleged Charleston gunman Dylann Roof “needs to be praised for the good deed he has done.”

Kurtis Cook, who had belonged to the Mabank Fire Department, wrote the comments on the Facebook page of a South Carolina newspaper on Thursday, according to local NBC station KETK, which has a screengrab of the offending post.

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Roof is accused of killing nine people in a massacre at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church during a weekly Bible study meeting on Wednesday night.

Cook's post saying Roof "needs to be praised for the good deed" led to an outcry on social media. By Friday morning, the department -- located about an hour southeast of Dallas -- wrote on Facebook that it had launched an investigation. Within an hour, the department wrote a followup post saying Cook had been terminated and banned from all department property.

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