On Monday, veteran prosecutor Kaylynn Williford resigned from the Harris County District Attorney’s Office, where she had headed the Trial Division. Her resignation followed her punitive demotion after a “vociferous outcry about the post from lawyers and the broader public” over Williford’s sharing this on Facebook:
(I am not active on Facebook, but I gather that it requires neither a great deal of thought nor a great deal of work to share a post there.)
Williford, who said “she did not and would not equate racial justice protesters and Nazis,” had taken the post down “after a friend’s daughter and later a Jewish lawyer told her they found it offensive to compare” protesters tearing down statues to Nazis.
A senior prosecutor shares something offensive to Jewish people, 21st-Century iconoclasts, to those who would ban free speech (which includes her boss, Kim Ogg, but that’s a topic for another day), and to those who would blame economic hardships on one group of people. Someone tells her…