Paul Gaudio, a 20-year veteran of the brand, was terminated effective today for comments on a Complex Instagram Post that were interpreted by some as supporting Kyle Rittenhouse, the 17-year-old facing a murder charge for killing two protestors of the Jacob Blake killing in Kenosha, WI. The comment, which seems more an indictment of U.S. culture in general than anything else, was, “He [Rittenhouse] is also a victim here. He’s a kid, who raised him? Who taught him? Who gave him a gun? Not excusing him by any means…but the adults who radicalized him and enabled him should be punished.”

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