Facebook removed the post for breaking the company’s “Violence and Incitement” policies, a company spokesperson confirmed late Tuesday.
The picture Higgins attached was taken from news coverage of an armed group of protesters marching in Louisville earlier this summer to protest the killing of Breonna Taylor during a botched police raid.
“We don’t want to see your worthless ass nor do we want to make your Mothers cry,” Higgins wrote.
Higgins is a loud champion of gun rights — including the right to openly carry firearms in public, which is legal in Louisiana — and regularly wears a handgun while in the state.
– Jerry DiColo and Bryn Stole in Clay Higgins says on Facebook that armed demonstrators ‘won’t walk away’ from Louisiana protests