By The FirstDemocratic Gov. Katie Hobbs’ press secretary Josselyn Berry has resigned after publishing a controversial tweet on Monday, just hours after a transgender shooter killed 6 people at a Christian elementary school in Nashville, Tennessee.
On Monday evening, Josselyn Berry posted a screen shot from the 1980 movie “Gloria,” showing a woman with a handgun in each hand. Berry’s caption reads, “Us when we see transphobes.” Berry posted the photo hours after Audrey Hale, a transgender person, entered The Covenant School in Nashville and murdered 6 people, including three 9-year-old children.
Berry has since set her Twitter account to Private, and the offending tweet has been deleted.
According to Dennis Welch, the Political Editor of CBS 5 News in Phoenix, Arizona, Josselyn Berry has now resigned from Hobbs’ administration.
Governor Hobbs, a Democrat who was elected last year, came under increasing pressure from Republicans to fire her press secretary on Tuesday.
“Less than 12 hours after the tragic shooting in Nashville by a deranged transgender activist [Hobbs’] Press Secretary calls for shooting people Democrats disagree with,” the Arizona Freedom Caucus tweeted on Tuesday. “[Josselyn Berry] should be fired immediately.”