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The New York Daily News reports:
An embattled North Carolina professor who sparked furious backlash over a series of controversial tweets in recent months, including one comparing coronavirus restrictions to living in a “slave state,” was found dead Thursday. Police discovered the body of Mike Adams, a tenured sociology and criminology professor at the University of North Carolina-Wilmington, while performing a wellness check at his home.
The New Hanover County Sheriff’s Office has not released any details, but an investigation is underway, local news outlets reported. Adams’ provocative and sometimes offensive remarks had angered many UNCW students and members of the community for more than a decade, but he made national headlines this year over numerous social media posts about the COVID-19 pandemic and anti-racism protests.
Townhall reacts:
It is with saddened hearts that we report longtime Townhall columnist Mike Adams was found dead at his North Carolina home on Thursday. No details surrounding his death have been released, according to local news reports.
For the last 20 years Adams appeared regularly on these pages in defense of conservative principles. But free speech and abortion were the issues he was most passionate about.
Adams had long tussled with the University of North Carolina – Wilmington, where he was a professor of criminology, set to retire Aug. 1, over the opinions he expressed at Townhall, in speeches, and on social media.
Adams regularly appeared on JMG a decade ago, usually for anti-gay comments. He once published a “joking” Townhall column claiming that eight Christian students had committed suicide due to bullying by LGBT activists.
This evening I ate pizza and drank beer with six guys at a six seat table top. I almost felt like a free man who was not living in the slave state of North Carolina.
Massa Cooper, let my people go!
— Mike S. Adams (@MikeSAdams) May 29, 2020
When you write the university asking them to fire me don’t forget to leave a mailing address so I can send you a box of panty liners.
— Mike S. Adams (@MikeSAdams) June 2, 2020
Not surprising that the party of slavery is now the party of lockdowns. Individual liberty has never been the strong suit of Democrats.
— Mike S. Adams (@MikeSAdams) June 2, 2020
Please do mourn Mike Adams’s death, but don’t sugarcoat his rhetoric as merely “controversial” or “racially charged.” He was blatantly racist, homophobic, and sexist, and his own words left no room for interpretation on any of that.
— Dr LJ Randolph Jr (@ProfeRandolph) July 23, 2020
Shocked to hear of the death of my friend @MikeSAdams. He was a faithful advocate for Truth and for the Gospel of Christ. He was reviled by many and always stood firm.
I will miss him. https://t.co/sSIQPAvVjn
— Jenna Ellis (@JennaEllisEsq) July 24, 2020